How to Knit Booties
Whether it's you or your best friend who's expecting a baby, you want to try your hand at making something for this new little person. If you don't have much time or much experience, one quick, handmade present you can make for the new baby is a pair of soft, fluffy booties.
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Instructions
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Choose yarn for the baby's booties. Find a nice soft baby-weight yarn in a color you know the expectant mother loves for your first pair of booties. You will need only 4 oz. for this project.
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Cast on 34 stitches.
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Work in garter stitch for the first 14 rows. Garter stitch is created when you only do knit stitches, no purling or other fancy stitches here.
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Knit two together at the start of the next two rows. Finish the ends of the rows in garter stitch.
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Bind off three at the beginning of the next two rows. Again, use garter stitch to finish the ends of the rows.
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Work ribbing--knit two stitches, purl two stitches, continue--for the next 14 rows of the booties.
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Bind off the final row.
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Fold the completed bootie in half, bringing the fronts together and use the darning needles to sew up the seam.
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Comments
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Nightkd
Feb 25, 2009
Is there any chance of a picture of the finished article, or perhaps a before and after it has been stitched together into the bootie?I'm having troubles figuring out where to fold and stitch as the pattern seems to create a funny shape...? Almost as if you need to make two and stitch them side to side... -
Nightkd
Feb 25, 2009
Is there any chance of a picture of the finished article, or perhaps a before and after it has been stitched together into the bootie?I'm having troubles figuring out where to fold and stitch as the pattern seems to create a funny shape...? Almost as if you need to make two and stitch them side to side...
