BOOTIE CALL! (Baby Botties)

BOOTIE CALL BABY BOOTIES

These precious little booties were loom knitted in less than 1 hour each bottie.

I used the Yellow kniffty knitter circular loom to do these. 2 x 4 ply yarns were used, two of different colours. One in pink and another in purple.

What I did was I loomed the shape of the pattern first and then sewed the booties all together to create the form and completion of the booties with a yarn plastic needle that you can purchase for cheap at Wal- Mart.

I started with the cuff and casted on 16 pegs and used the knit stitch only and worked my way down to 14 rows as a flat panel. You will find that the cuff of the booties will curl and that is the effect you want. At this point you will need to add/ increase 6 stitches per side (left and right) for a total of 28 stitches. This is to create the foot part of the booties. You will continue to used the knit stitch down 11 rows.

For the bottom of the booties you now cast off/decrease of either side of the booties by 12 pegs ....So 12 pegs on the left and 12 pegs on the right. This decrease will leave you with 4 working/ remaining pegs to create the bottom of the booties. AT this point you will then knit as a flat panel 15 rows. what will happen now is fully cast off all pegs from the loom.

With my needle I used one yarn and sewed the bottom panels to the side of the piece and then sewed all pieces together to form the booties. I then took 1 piece from each yarn colour and created laces. These laces are not functional they just look good.

Have fun with this easy project. These are great gifts for any new baby.