My new friend Audrey is still inutero at the moment, but I wanted to make her a welcome to the world present.
Her mum and dad are into the darker side of things, so I was going to make her some black bootees, but when I looked at patterns they were all so booooring, so I made her some baby mary janes instead, then jazzed em up with roses on her toes
side view
and modeled by my care monkey
Thanks hope you and Audrey like them!
Here's the pattern:
I used 5 ply acrylic (strangely, you can't get black baby wool
) and a 2.5 mm hook
SHOE
1. ch 16
2. 3 TC in 4 th ch from end, and then in the following chains TC, TC, DC, SC, SC, DC, TC, TC, TC, dblTC, dblTC, dblTC, 12 dbleTC around end loop, turn
3. on other side of chain dblTC, dblTC, dblTC, TC, TC, TC, TC, TC, TC, TC, TC, TC, 4 TC in end loop,( basically repeat the other side in reverse without making a dip for the instep) slip stitch last TC top of starter TC
4. this makes a right foot. For the left foot do step 3 first, then step 2
5. Do 2 rounds of SC, increasing and decreasing at the relevent curves to make the sole sit nice and flat
6. 1 round SC, decreasing 1 or 2 sts at instep
7. 1 round SC, but at the toe DC, TC, skip, TC, TC, skip, TC, TC, skip, TC, TC, skip, TC DC to bring it up and around
8. 1 round SC, at toe alternating TCs
9. 1 round SC, but DC at heel (SC across toe)
10. start a round of shell edging (ss, skip, 6DC, skip, ss), but opposite the instep SC across 3 stitches (for the button), and at instep 4 SC in 4 sts, ch1, turn, *SC SC SC, ch1 , turn* repeat * until strap is 7.5 cm, ch9, attach to other side to form loop. BO, start shell edging again at base of strap and finish around shoe
BUTTON
1. ch 3, form loop
2. ch1, 5C around
3. ch1, 11 SC around
4. ch1 5 SC around. BO. stitch onto shoe opposite strap
FLOWER (taken from
Knitting Fashion circa. 1976)
1. ch5, form loop
2. ch1, 14 DC around
3. * 4 ch, keeping the last stitch of each st on hook work 3dblTC into next st, yrh and draw through all loops on hook, 4 ch, ss into each of next 2 sts* repeat * around loop until you have a flower. Stitch onto shoe at the top of the toe
Hope this makes sense, let me know if it doesn't
You could easily adapt this pattern to fit bigger feet by increasing the weight of the wool and the hook size, and adding extra stitches along the sole and up the sides.
