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01.31.2005 :: I'm being a baby!
Well, here it is. Monday morning. I was tagged for my first ever meme! (I do not know what that word means, anyone?) by Kim~Thanks girl! BUT. You will have to wait until I have a chance to formulate some answers. My first instinct is to answer
None, nope, not a one, what?? and such. But that would be cheating. Although a bit true. But music has a way of being in your life, even if you don't nurse it along.
So, let's get this straight? This is a post saying that there is a post coming?
Yes. A preview post.
Movies do it. Why not blogs?
Baby booties
I got the brilliant idea to make a pair of baby booties for a gift. You know the routine. Small. Fast. What could be better. I had some debbie bliss baby cashmerino in my stash.
Let me just say this before I continue. BABY BOOTIES KICKED MY ASS! First off, I started with cute booties from the Adorable Knits for Tots book. It has little dots on them. CUTE. They stumped me. I emailed an SOS alert to Leigh. (Thanks, Leigh! )She kindly offered to help and when I started typing the email, I got it. Sometimes it takes jolting the mind. So I continued on my merry way. Until I realized that the little dots were leaving quite a few strands behind the knitting. Sure, I was catching them every 2 or 3 stitches, but little baby toes could find their way in there. I remembered being a mom and trying to get that baby foot into something that was resistant. Off the needles it came. I could not do that to any new mother.
Next up was a pair in the debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino book. They look a bit like sandals, with a cute strap and little button.
Now, I fancy myself a perfectly adequate knitter. I think I'm okay at it. I am a smart human being. Sometimes it takes me a bit to get the hang of a pattern but this one...this one kicked my ASS! It sits on the needles right now. When I look over at it, I think, "what the???" It looks very much like a catnip mouse. The directions are so vague I could just scream. I think I can see what I need to do to bring them a bit closer to being baby booties.
But honestly, let's think about this. Does a new mother need a baby bootie that has a strap and a tiny, miniscule button? Really?
Okay, idea number 2 scrapped.
This was supposed to be a fast and easy project and now it's taken a whole Sunday away. I could have been knitting the other things. That I am supposed to be knitting before my wandering eye took me in another direction!
Scheez.
Posted by Sandy on 01.31.2005 AT 07:14 AM
Comments
I had the same question!! Google the phrase - what is a meme. The first return is a series of definitions.
Posted by: Christy on 02.01.2005 AT 05:02 PM
Try the booties in Quick Knit Gifts...
Posted by: Carrie on 01.31.2005 AT 01:30 PM
Try these: http://www.valleycafe.com/knitting/babysocks.pdf
I've made them for both of my neices in Koigu. Loverly socks and they have warm tootsies to boot!
April
Posted by: April on 01.31.2005 AT 11:25 AM
I've had the same problems with booties lately. I tried one of the bootie patterns from the Adorable Knits book and then put them down because I just couldn't figure them out. I'm switching to a baby sweater now. They're much faster for me!
Posted by: monica on 01.31.2005 AT 10:57 AM
Hi Sandy,
Here is one of my favorite bootie patterns http://www.knittingonthenet.com/patterns/babybootsribbed.htm
Good luck!
Posted by: Maureen on 01.31.2005 AT 10:53 AM
Sandy,
I have a variation of the very bootie that Claudia's talking about on my blog. Quick, easy and very cute. Go here:
http://scottishlamb.typepad.com/the_scottish_lamb/2004/11/its_the_little_.html#comments
Posted by: Jean on 01.31.2005 AT 10:20 AM
Debbie Bliss patterns are notoriously vague. I remember trying to make something that was something like a square that folded into a sandal, and the directions said, "Knit a square in garter stitch. Finish sandal as shown in illustration." Wha...?
Posted by: June on 01.31.2005 AT 09:50 AM
Anything from "50 baby bootees to knit". I swear it.
Posted by: Stephanie on 01.31.2005 AT 09:40 AM
Hey Lady,
What about knitting the little baby on the way a pair of long, comfy and colorful socks? Those suckers definitely would be fun to knit (more so than those origami-ish booties!)
Posted by: Leigh on 01.31.2005 AT 09:26 AM
I always make the same bootie when booties are called for -- the Stay On Baby Booties from "Knitting for Baby" by Kirstin Thomas (I think). If you google, there are lots of variations on that pattern for free on the net.
Posted by: claudia on 01.31.2005 AT 09:05 AM
If only cute always meant functional. Sounds like both patterns wouldn't have worked that well. It's only one day... :)
Posted by: Vicki on 01.31.2005 AT 08:24 AM
Yikes! Perhaps you saved me from my future knitting self. I'm working on the endless baby blanket right now, and wondering about baby booties: quick, easy, etc etc. Never mind. I'll just keep slogging on the 49" of infant coverage.
Posted by: Laurie on 01.31.2005 AT 08:23 AM
When I'm knitting baby stuff I always replace the buttons with snaps. They're easy to do, you get to skip the buttonholes and I think they are less likely to get pulled off and put into little mouths. :)
Posted by: Julie on 01.31.2005 AT 08:01 AM
Oh the suspense is killing me! ;)
I've tried some Debbie Bliss booties, and was wondering the same thing--why does a bootie need a little strap & tiny button? It kicked my ass, too. I still have the (unsewn) bootie just as a reminder. A reminder for what? Not to have any more kids? Not to knit items that wind up looking a bit like a map of New York? I'm not sure, actually...
Have a great Monday! xxooxxoo
Posted by: Kim on 01.31.2005 AT 07:57 AM
I found a pretty decent pattern at woolworks.org that were called kick proof booties. They are knit in the round for the most part. I've adapted the pattern to my lazy knitting (no purling, just kniting) but as it is, it's easy, they are cute, and easy to put on baby's wiggly feet.
Posted by: elaine on 02.02.2005 AT 07:21 AM