Booties are children's decorative shoes for babies up to a year. They can be compared to socks in their functions, but the difference is that the socks are elastic and fit the entire leg in the same way, and the booties are made with a visual highlight of the sole, heel and heel.
What booties look like
What are booties
Booties are a special symbol of a newborn baby. Many pregnant women are fond of knitting them for their unborn baby. This activity is very useful while waiting for the child. The expectant mother relaxes, concentrates on thoughts of unity with the child, puts her soul into creating the first shoe. Many adults prone to sentimentality keep their first booties, inherited from their mother, as a symbol of the starting point of their own life.
When to wear booties
Booties for boys and girls are decorative, symbolic shoes that keep warm, but are not intended for walking. They are put on until the baby starts walking. A child sitting in a stroller is walked in booties, since there is no need to buy shoes with rigid soles for walking on the streets.
ATimportant! While the baby's leg is being formed and does not have the practice of walking on a hard surface, you should not shackle it with hard shoes.
Preparation for knitting
Getting started consists in choosing the right material and knitting tools. It all depends on what result needs to be achieved, based on the seasonality of use and the preferred color scheme.
Spoke selection
There are many types of knitting needles, the purpose and features of which are easily understood by a professional knitter:
- straight;
- circular;
- hosiery;
- elongated.
Knitting needles
According to the type of material, knitting needles are classified as follows:
- plastic;
- metal (steel or aluminum);
- wooden;
- bone;
- bamboo.
Interesting. The needles can be either cast or hollow.
Since the yarn of the booties is dense and small, you need to choose strong knitting needles that will not break from the tension of the thread.
Yarn selection
The yarn is chosen by the mother for her personal taste. It is better if these are natural materials, because synthetics are not able to retain heat as much as wool or even cotton. Colors can be selected according to personal preference. For example, booties for a boy are more often blue, gray or green tones. For girls, it is customary to choose pink, white, purple shades.
On a note. To prevent the finished booties from stretching or shrinking after the first wash, the yarn can be washed and dried before starting work.
In order to get warm winter booties, it is better to choose yarn from merino wool or cashmere. For the summer version of the booties, you can use linen or cotton.
Sizes of booties for boys up to a year
The length of a newborn's foot is 8-9 cm. This size will be up to three months. By the age of six months, it will grow up to 10 cm.A year the length of the foot will be about 12 cm.
When a mother is just expecting her baby, she can safely knit booties 8.5 cm long. The baby's foot can easily fit into such shoes, it will be worn for another couple of months. If the mother will knit for an already born child, then the required size is easy to determine with a piece of paper and a pencil. To measure a baby's foot you will need:
- Attach the leg to the sheet, straightening it well.
- Make pencil marks on the edge of the heel and at the very protruding finger (most often this is the thumb).
- Measure the number of centimeters between the two marks with a ruler, this will be the actual foot length.
- Add 1 cm to the actual length of the foot, you get the required insole length.
Additional Information. The width of the sole should be measured at the widest part of the foot.
How to calculate the amount of yarn
Booties are medium-sized products. Depending on what color the soft shoes will be, you need to purchase a certain amount of yarn. If you plan monophonic products, you can safely assume that half a skein will go to work.
Each skein of yarn contains 320 meters of thread. On average, ready-made booties for a newborn will be 130 meters. When using multi-colored yarn, the required amount can be calculated by knowing the proportions of colored blotches. To start calculations, you only need to know that each new skein with a thread length of 320 m has a weight equal to 100 g.
Knitting patterns
There are three popular patterns for a set of loops and rows:
- facial;
- hosiery;
- elastic.
All three are used in making booties. For example, elastic is usually used for cuffs, and knit is used to form the sole.
Different schemes
Instructions
You can get baby booties for a boy or girl by knitting on two knitting needles, four + one working or using a crochet. It will be easier for novice craftsmen to understand the technique of knitting on two knitting needles.
Start of a set of loops
The first loop, before appearing on the needle, must be formed in the palm of the hand, for this the thread is pulled around the index and thumb, after which the thumb "diving" under the thread forms a loop that is transferred to the needle.
Loop closure
To close the loops when knitting on two knitting needles, you need to pass the last two loops from left to right with a non-working knitting needle so that the second loop goes into the hole of the first.
Popular models of booties
The models that imitate adult sneakers or sneakers have become the most popular for boys. Descriptions with diagrams will help a novice needlewoman to give her boy exclusive warm shoes.
Sneakers
Knitted sneakers are popular with mothers of boys. The base for the sole begins with a set of 6 loops. When picking up rows, you need to increase the number of loops by one through the row, until you get 12 loops in a row. For the top of the booties, you need to knit 34 rows, then again through the row remove 1 loop. After that, you should dial 52 loops around the edge and make 2 more rows.
Knitted sneakers
Classic sneakers are blue and white, so color separation is formed. To do this, starting from the middle of the heel, blue 23 loops are recruited in both directions, the front 13 loops are white. The other 10 rows are shawl, each one needs to remove 1 eyelet.
Slippers
Booties-slippers look very cute on small legs. It is convenient to knit them according to the following scheme.
For the sole, 10 loops are typed. In the third row, add 2 loops from each edge. Repeat for rows 5 and 7. Next, 34 rows are typed with a hosiery pattern, together with the first, and in each even 2 loops are closed until there are 10 of them again.
After that, you need to dial 72 loops using 4 knitting needles and knit 6 garter rows. After that, the work is divided into two parts: the toe (recruited with an elastic band) and the heel (knit). In the part of the sock in the very center, 1 loop is added - on every 18th. Cast on 4 more rows, after which in each row there are 3 loops together in the very center of the pattern until 7 loops remain. All this time, recruit the heel in knit. On the toe, the loops are now closed, on the remaining knitting needles 20 loops are added and knitted in garter stitch.
Winter
Warm winter knitted boots will adorn small legs. You need to start with the cuff, distributing 37 loops over 4 knitting needles. Having connected the extreme two, close the circle. 12 rows in a circle should be knitted with an elastic band. Then you need to make 2 front rows and distribute the loops over 4 knitting needles in quantities: 11, 7, 11 and 7. For the toe on the needle number 3 with 11 loops, you need to knit 18 rows of reverse garter stitch. For the side on the sides of the future toe, dial 1 loop each and knit 10 rows of scarf. The sole is knitted with the front satin stitch and connected to the sides. To do this, only 11 loops are made in the middle, knitting each last one with a side until the side knitting needles completely exhaust their loops. Then, from the remaining two knitting needles, the loops are transferred to one, taking one from each one in turn. The loops are closed. These booties can be decorated with a beautiful ribbon.
Toy cars
In order to get beautiful baby booties, you can come up with an original design for any finished model, decorating it with knitted wheels. To do this, it is enough to tie four wheels on each leg and fix them on the hinges in the right places.
Children under one year old, more often up to 6-7 months, do not leave the stroller during walks. They watch with interest everything that happens around. At the same time, passers-by are happy to see such kids. Dressing up the baby in beautiful booties, the little explorer will be able to create a unique image.
