super sleuth!

Guess what guys???

We have a super sleuth among us...

Three big cheers for VJESTICICA who managed to track down the pattern for these bootees!!!

You can find the pattern in this book here which is available for sale from Annie's Attic.

Mind you, that's not where I got the pattern from...

I used this book here:



Some of you Aussie folk might actually have this one at home. I probably bought it about 12 - 15 years ago, probably somewhere like Big W or Spotlight or a similar store. It's a Patons booklet, and it's one that was around for years and years. But no longer in publication.

Here's what the bootee looks like in my pattern book:


And here's my finished bootees...

Well, one is finished, anyway!

I thought I'd take a comparison photo for you - one with embroidery and one without...



My embroidery isn't EXACTLY as directed in the pattern...

The blue on green at the top is supposed to be bullion stitch - which I haven't mastered yet... so I just worked a straight stitch there.

The dark blue crosses on light blue are as written, but I added a little red dot in the centre of each.

And the light blue zig zag on dark blue, was supposed to be herringbone stitch, but I couldn't get it working neatly into the space... and I went the simple zig zag instead!

Anyway, time for me to get on with embroidering the second bootee, before the baby outgrows them...

cutie bootees

Ooooooh.... it's a long, long time since I have sat down and made a pair of bootees. And I honestly don't think that I have EVER crocheted a pair, so this project was quite a novelty!

This is the sole of the foot... can you just imagine the eency weency teeny weeny little footsie wootsie which is going to fit into these???? Too adorable...

But, as we all know... they GROW UP!!!

Anyway,

the pattern was a bit of a challenge for me - as it is written in UK terminology, and I generally only work in US terms. So there was a bit of translation going on in my head the whole time, but I got there in the end.

Now here's the surprising part...

So far I have followed the pattern EXACTLY.

Well, I changed down a hook size, but that was only because I couldn't find a 3.5mm hook (not that I don't have one, just that I couldn't FIND it)

And I didn't use baby yarn in pastelly colours, because... well... I didn't HAVE any... but I've stuck with a 5 ply yarn...

But those things don't really count, do they???

Other than that, I have followed the pattern as written.

Even all those colour changes - they are exactly as written in the pattern.

But they're not finished yet! There's embellishing to come - it says so, right there in THE PATTERN!!!

I'm off to find a tapestry needle, will have the results for you soon...