Crochet Pattern Baby Booties – These easy crochet baby booties are an excellent baby shower gift or gift idea for grandparents receiving a pregnancy announcement. These lovely baby shoes are quick and simple to create. With this step-by-step crochet design, you can create the ideal baby shoes for your child and personalize them.
Skill level: easy / beginner
3 sizes: from newborn to 9 months baby
MATERIALS AND TOOLS:
- Original yarn: Drops Cotton Light (50% Cotton, 50% Polyester 105 m/115 yards per 50 g skein) in 2 strands approx. 80-90 yards total.
- Substitute yarn: #3 DK / Light – green in the table.
- Hook: 4.00 mm (G)
- Notions: measuring tape, scissors, stitch markers, tapestry needle, 2 buttons (diameter 2.50 cm / 1”)
- Gauge: 15 sc* 13 rnds = 4’’ (10cm) in 2 strands in sc. Always use a crochet hook size that will result in the correct gauge after blocking.
If the size of the sole when crocheting you get more than you need, then crochet tighter or use a hook 0.5 mm smaller.
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Alternative yarn:
• Hobbii Rainbow Cotton 8/6
• Mayflower Cotton Merino Classic
ABBREVIATIONS: all stitches are listed in US terms!
| Abbreviation | Description |
| BLO | back loop only |
| ch | chain stitch |
| dc | double crochet |
| FLO | front loop only |
| hdc | half double crochet |
| hdc2tog | half double crochet decrease – work 2 hdc together |
| inc | increase – work 2 sc in 1 st of previous rnd |
| dc inc | double crochet increase – work 2 dc in 1 st of previous rnd |
| PM | place marker |
| RS | right side |
| sc | single crochet |
| sl-st | slip stitch |
| WS | wrong side |
| (…) | number of sts in total |
| rep (…) *N | repeat in brackets N times |
| rep | repeat |
| invisible join | Break the working yarn, leaving an end of about 5 cm [2 inches]. First, pull the tail through the open working loop of the last stitch to secure. Then, pull it through the first stitch of the previous round, then thread it back through the last stitch. Weave in the remaining end through the gaps between the stitches. |
| dc2tog | double crochet decrease – work 2 dc together |
SIZES:
Before crocheting bootiess, you need to measure the inner foot length (as shown in the picture). If this is not possible, then use the table.
It gives average data for different ages of children. Remember that all children are different and each one is unique 🙂
| Age | Inner foot length | Foundation chain | Outsole length | ||
| cm | inches | chains | cm | inches | |
| Newborn | 8 | 3 | 7 | 8.5 | 3.3 |
| 0-3 months* | 9 | 3.5 | 9 | 9.5 | 3.7 |
| 3-9 months | 11 | 4.3 | 11 | 11.5 | 4.5 |
* Video tutorial is only for this size.
NOTE: The height-adjustment chains at the beginning of the round count as one stitch in the overall stitch count for the round.
The first stitch at the beginning of the round is worked into the same stitch from which the height-adjustment chain emerges.
STEP 1. SOLE/BOTTOM
Size baby 0-3 months
Chain 9. Stitches are worked around both sides of the foundation chain. PM to indicate the beginning of the round.
Rnd 1: ch 2, 2 hdc in the 9th ch, 7 hdc, 5 dc in one st; turn around and work onto the backside of the foundation chain: 7 hdc, 2 hdc in one st, sl-st (24) [fig 1].
Rnd 2: ch 2, 2 hdc into next 2 st, 4 hdc, 3 dc, rep(dc inc) *5, 3 dc, 4 hdc, 2 hdc into next 2 st, 1 hdc, sl-st (34) [fig 2].
STEP 1. SOLE/BOTTOM
Size newborn
Chain 7. Stitches are worked around both sides of the foundation chain. PM to indicate the beginning of the round.
Rnd 1: ch 2, 2 hdc into the 7th ch, 5 hdc, 6 hdc in one st; turn around and work onto the backside of the foundation chain: 5 hdc, 2 hdc in one st, sl-st (21).
Rnd 2: ch 2, 2 hdc into next 2 st, 5 hdc, rep(hdc inc) *6, 5 hdc, 2 hdc into next 2 st, 1 hdc, sl-st (32).
Size baby 3-9 months
Chain 11. Stitches are worked around both sides of the foundation chain. PM to indicate the beginning of the round.
Rnd 1: ch 2, 2 dc into the 11th ch, 9 dc, 6 dc in one st; turn around and work onto the backside of the foundation chain: 9 dc, 3 dc in one st, sl-st (30).
Rnd 2: ch 2, 2 hdc into next 2 st, 4 hdc, 5 dc, rep (hdc inc) *6, 5 dc, 4 hdc, 2 hdc into next 3 st, 1 hdc, sl-st (42).
STEP 2. TOP BOOTIES
Size baby 0-3 months
Rnd 3: crochet BLO: ch 2, 33 hdc, sl-st (34) [fig 3, 4].
Rnd 4: ch 2, 33 hdc, sl-st (34) [fig 5].
Rnd 5: ch 1, 8 sc, 2 hdc, rep(dc2tog)*6, 2 hdc, 9 sc, sl-st (28) [fig 6].
Rnd 6: ch 1, 1 sc, dec, 8 sc, rep(dc2tog)*3, 7 sc, dec, 1 sc, sl-st (23) [fig 7, 8]
Rnd 7: ch 2, 22 dc, sl st (23) [fig 9]
Rnd 8: ch 2, 22 dc. Break the working yarn and make invisible join in the round. [fig 10, 11]
STEP 2. TOP BOOTIES
Size newborn
Rnd 3: crochet BLO: ch 2, 30 hdc, sl-st (31)
Rnd 4: ch 1, 7 sc, 2 hdc, rep(dc2tog)*6, 2 hdc, 8 sc, sl-st (25)
Rnd 5: ch 1, 1 sc, dec, 7 sc, rep(dc2tog)*3, 6 sc, dec, 1 sc, sl-st (21)
Rnd 6: ch 2, 20 dc, sl-st (21)
Rnd 7: ch 2, 20 dc, sl-st (21)
Rnd 8: ch 2, 20 hdc.
Break the working yarn and make invisible join in the round.
Size baby 3-9 months
Rnd 3: crochet BLO: ch 2, 41 dc, sl-st (42)
Rnd 4: ch 2, 41 hdc, sl-st (42)
Rnd 5: ch 1, 9 sc, 2 hdc, rep(dc2tog)*8, 2 hdc, 12 sc, sl-st (34)
Rnd 6: ch 1, 1 sc, dec, 8 sc, rep(dc2tog)*4, 11 sc, dec, 1 sc, sl-st (23)
Rnd 7: ch 2, 22 dc, sl-st (23)
Rnd 8: ch 2, 22 dc.
Break the working yarn and mak6e invisible join in the round.
STEP 3. FINISHING
You can decorate the booties as you wish: sew on a wooden button or insert a string to make the booties sit tighter on the leg.
You can use these booties as a pregnancy announcement and please your loved ones with an unusual gift.
Turn on your imagination and enjoy crocheting!!!
