WIP: Baby Cocoon

Well, it's happened again! I was browsing Hobby Lobby while waiting on Pete to be groomed and saw this yarn, so I decided to feel it. 

And then I bought it. I could see it as a finished object already! I really need to keep my hands off the yarn. 

It's Yarn Bee Soft Illusion in the "Softly" colorway, and it's going to be a baby cocoon! It's a "super bulky" yarn, but it's not as bulky as other "super bulky" yarns like the Lion Brand Hometown USA yarn. 

The yarn is an acrylic/polyamide blend with TONS of halo. It is insanely soft, but the washable part is the most important. Baby items tend to become covered in some sort of bodily product at one point or another. 

This is what I have so far:

I think it's about 14-16 inches long at this point. 

Here's a close-up. Look at that halo! 

I do worry that all of that halo fuzz will become icky when washed, but it should be OK as long as it is dried carefully. 

For the cocoon, I found a stitch pattern I liked in a hat (check out the Gnarly Hat by Diana Troldahl on Ravelry) and estimated the number of stitches I'd need to cast-on by checking the pattern I used to knit a cabled cocoon (more like a tube). 

I haven't decided if this is going to be a tube like the other cocoon I made or if I will decrease and make it into an actual sack.

I think I'll call this work my "Traveling Ribs Baby Cocoon" since "Gnarly Baby Cocoon" sounds a bit like it's in need of a diaper change.