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Bootees
posted by Emma on 29 Sep 2008
Phew, that was close. This week includes both my due date and my own birthday, and finally - finally - I have started to find pictures of babies cute. I've always been ok with the cuteness of other mammalian infants. Kittens - check. Baby leopards - check. But human babies - er, not doing anything for me. Not enough fur, for a start. Thankfully I found a knitting pattern which featured these bootees popped on a chubby pair of baby legs that I actually found cute and quite nibblesome, so I made them, quick.
The bootees are in the same material and stitch as the cardigan I made a few months back. Here's the full set:
The poor child will see these photos in years to come and pray that I didn't team these rather wonky handknits with, say, brown velour dungarees. For that is what they're crying out for.
(No need to point out the many flaws, by the way - I am astonished enough that I made them at all. The occasional fundamental mistake is neither here nor there.)
Comments: 6
Oh, that's sweet - he will look like a little pixie!
Posted by: Sarah | September 29, 2008 11:05 AM
I know everyone has seen this clip, but I just thought I'd post it. It's impossible not to find this cute, surely...
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=baby+laughing&search_type=&aq=f
Posted by: Sarah Stovell | September 29, 2008 11:09 AM
Nope. Funny, but not cute. For your education, here are the rules of cuteness.
Posted by: em | September 29, 2008 11:42 AM
I know you said not to point out fundimental mistakes, but the obvious one is how to stop the little perisher kicking them off all the time?
My aunty was a manic knitter and supplied me with numerous booties and mittens, and in the end I found that not putting them on in the first place was a good start. :D
Although the hats were good, and the cardies.
Posted by: NaomiM | September 29, 2008 01:14 PM
Glue, Naomi. Or twine. Or a stern look...?
Posted by: Em | September 29, 2008 02:09 PM
Why does the second picture make me guess that you've somehow given birth already... to an invisible baby?
(Of course, you'd have to "forget" that the coat-hanger isn't there.)
Posted by: Christopher Teague | September 29, 2008 08:33 PM