Made this hat and booties combo for Baby Hill, who we just found out will be a boy (well, I made this before I knew it would be a boy, but he can still rock it out on days he's feeling sassy... I'll make him something a little bit more conservative, too.)
I love the look of the stripes- so cheerful and bright. Plus, making these small stripes allows me to use up lots of scrap yarn left over from other projects. However, I can safely say that I do not enjoy the process of doing all these stripes. It's all fun and games while I am crocheting, but at the end when it comes time to weave in the ends of the yarn, I am miserable. Observe the absurdly large number of yarn ends I must weave it just on one little bootie:
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| Bootie innards = not pretty |
Hat was made based on this pattern, while booties were made based on this pattern that I've used before (although modified somewhat on the upper part to be taller).