Even More Booties and Hats

This set is also for Baby Hill, for occasions in which his flashy rainbow accessories might not be appropriate...

Made with Lily Sugar n' Cream yarn from the same hat and boot patterns I've been using. 

Rainbow Baby Hat and Booties

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:

 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).

More Bootayz

I made some more booties, this time modifying the pattern somewhat so that they would look like mini-rainboots or mini-Uggs. 

Here are the modifications I made:

- Followed pattern for rows 1-3 in color A
- Switched to color B at the end of row 3
- Followed pattern until row 7
- Rows 8 and 9: double-crochet in each stitch around
- Row 10: Switch to color A and half double crochet in each stitch around
- Skip ties

Baby Booties and Mittens

Zoe wrote to Santa and asked for some handmade booties and mittens... somehow the letter got lost and ended up here with me in Jakarta.

OK, no she didn't.  But her dad did email me, asking for those items on her behalf.  The Real Martha (Zoe's "GrandMartha" and thrice-a-week babysitter) then specified further, insisting that the mittens have some device to ensure that they stay on her little hands and that the booties have something similar to secure them to the baby's "cankles."  Yes, The Real Martha called the baby's chubby ankles "cankles."  She's not the only one who's had this thought about baby ankles, apparently.

Mittnets.

 In any case, I found some simple instructions for tiny baby booties and thumbless baby mittens, both with tie closures.  I whipped them up pretty quickly using Bernat Handicrafter cotton yarn.  The stitch counting was a little wonky on the booties, so I had to figure out where the center of the toe was and devise my own counting/stitch marking method.  In the end it worked out fine!  I just hope they fit Zoe's cankles. 

Boo-tayz.

 Baby Z, expect these booties and mitten soon, but probably not before Christmas, based on my understanding of the Indonesian postal system.