9 January 2012
Wee Three Booties
Materials: Maybe 100 yards of KnitPicks Stroll Tonal in Springtime, and some other random sock yarn for the ties. Size 0 needles. Pattern: Christine’s Baby Booties.
Time: Several hours per bootie.
Cost: $0 — long-leftover yarn, this.
Speaking as someone who has knit her fair share of socks, I found these booties to be a surprisingly amusing change of pace. I don’t know if booties are a terribly useful baby item — I guess I’ll find out sooner or later — but they sure are fun to knit, and a fine way to use up spare scraps of sock yarn.
I initially started, and shortly abandoned, another baby-sock pattern that struck me as unnecessarily complicated. By comparison, I really like how these booties are engineered — you knit a rectangle for the sole, pick up stitches around it and knit upward for the foot, short-row the top of the foot, and then work the cuff.
Also, the ultrasound hasn’t revealed a tripedal baby: I made three of these because I’m told that baby socks always get lost, so why not have a spare in reserve?
And, like I said: they sure are fun to make.
I was really hoping you made the third for when one got lost. I love it! But I sort of feel like you need to make some for the cats, too, so they don’t feel left out.
The cats already have four fur booties. They generally don’t take kindly to wearing other ones over those. Lots of paw waving and walking backwards ensues. Come to think of it, cat booties sound pretty entertaining.