Funny, I work up one morning and summer was gone. Whilst most people in the UK think of the August bank holiday as the harbinger of autumn, for me, my birthday usually marks the end of summer. I've been waiting for some good weather to do my finished object photo-shoot because autumnis usually marked by frequent rain... and we have been having plenty of storms all across the country.
Seeing the sun out this morning, I prised myself out of bed and grabbed my knitting to go out and take a few photos. (after I had a wash, got dressed and had a cup of coffee, there are priorities, you know).
These little gems were based on a Debbie Bliss pattern from The Cotton Knits for All Seasons. I liked the shape of the foot, but thought that they would never stay on any baby's feet as the pattern was designed, so I extended the booties to have a ribbed cuff and added the twisted cord. Some glass beads were the finishing touch. I would had used pompoms, only my pompoms were horrible and fell apart. (don't ask).
It took me ages to balance these booties on the leaves of my hydrengeas. Here's another photo, the left bootie was just about to slip off.
Usuually, I take 2 or 3 photos to select the finished objects photos from. This time, I took about 10. The booties really are cute and I made them to go with the Mouton Gilet. I wished someone had warned me that baby booties are really fiddly to sew up. It took as long to assemble as it took to knit. I'm definitely rewritting this pattern to work in the round, because I just don't like the seams. I want to get into the knitting groove, not the sewing groove!
Which reminds me, that I had better post this out before the baby that it's intended for, gets too big to wear it.
What a beautiful baby set! I just love muted colors on babies - after recently having 2 (1 YO & 3 YO) I can't tell you how tired I was of baby pink and blue. If you do adapt the booties to the round, please share - I love them but refuse to spend too much time sewing up my knitting projects. I think these are the best looking booties I've seen.
Cheers!
Heather in MA
Posted by: Heather in MA at September 1, 2004 02:49 PMSo cute! The booties are adorable and they will go great with the cute little cardigan. I totally agree with the fiddlyness of knitting booties, though - it's either loads of sewing or hundreds (well, almost) of stitches to pick up. And then they fall off immediately ;-)
Posted by: kris at August 30, 2004 08:19 AMyou bootees looks so cute on top of your plant ;)
Posted by: marjorie at August 30, 2004 03:52 AMLovely baby booties and cardigan !
The summer has not gone here. Another one month to go ....
Posted by: Eva Shiu at August 30, 2004 03:17 AMBeautiful FOs! What a lucky baby to be the recipient of this wonderful gift set!
Posted by: Rossana at August 30, 2004 02:47 AMOh, great looking booties and sweater...don't you love Debbie Bliss...I have a couple of books of her..what inspiration! I also love how your plant 'held' your work-great display! Way to go for the sun :) Hope many more to come this week :) I'm in San Diego, CA and actually I wish we could get SOME kind of weather...but very hard to complain...;)
Posted by: PJ at August 30, 2004 02:25 AMThose booties are so adorable!
Posted by: Misa at August 30, 2004 02:25 AMthose are both beautiful. i just love your knit photos! they show every lovely detail.
Posted by: froggy at August 29, 2004 05:22 PMPolly, what absolutely gorgeous bootees, those lovely beads just set them off to perfection. I quite agree with you about the sewing up bit, I've never understood why something so small and quick to knit should seem to take so much time and effort to sew up.
Posted by: Louise at August 29, 2004 04:35 PMPolly - these are so sweet ! I know exactly the bootees you mean and I thought the same thing, so I like the way you've extended them. It must be something about August birthdays - I always feel my birthday marks the end of summer too (maybe because I usually went back to school quite soon after my birthday ?) and once we're into Autumn the rest of the year just seems to sort of career towards us.
Posted by: Heather at August 29, 2004 11:07 AMBeautiful little bootees - beautiful little outfit altogether! I love knitting bootees but agree the sewing up isn't much fun. Grand-daughter knitting has all been finished for this winter (we didn't even have a winter for them to wear them much!!!) and now I'm knitting a lace scarf in some stunning cream Danish mohair (from a long ago swap with Thomas) then on to Koigu Charlotte's web.
Posted by: Lesley at August 29, 2004 12:10 AM