Baby Booties Masterpiece

I love these shoes so much I can't even stand it. Think they would look cute on a necklace? Who knew making a little pair of baby shoes would be so darn fun?! I want a pair of these in my size - I wonder if I can make that happen???....prob'ly not.

A huge thanks to Heather Bailey for the UH-DORABLE pattern on her blog - and to my friends at the DMC Floss company for making the most beautiful thread. Seriously - it's all in the thread, girls. I used two different strands (see photo at bottom) - the green for the vine and the pink for the flowers....and I got this!!!! {aaak!}

Okay, so now all I can say is that these shoes better fit my child because...OH MY GOSH...I'll have a seizure.

Seriously folks - I stitched these shoes in an hour (and I just mean the hand-stitching, not the whole pinning and sewing thing) If you refer to my handy stitch guide, you could whip out a pair in no time for yourself. Just get some white felt, the shoe pattern, some floss and a needle and go at it, honey. (I got my felt at Jo-Ann's on the bolt.) The stitching is really, really, really easy. Play with it and see for yourself.


Of course, I couldn't just make the shoes - I had to have a onesie to go with them. A girl's gotta match, right?



If you do make a pair, I'm going to give one teensy pointer - (referring to the photo with the pins in the shoe) make sure you line up the top toes and the heel, secure, and then go around the edges. If you get puckering, don't worry, try to smooth them out the best you can without unpinning the toes and heel.

Up next: white on white. I'M DYING!!!

New Onesies & Booties

I couldn't resist sharing my latest creations. We've got a new baby boy in the family so I put together these little sets for him. I LOVE how it all turned out! I especially love that my fleece rectangle is so imperfect looking - as strange as that sounds. I think that's what gives this little shirt some character. (Good...because I'm NOT perfect at anything!!! My stuff just has "character".)

These are SO simple to make - and the end result is something beautiful and hand made. Here are the instructions again:

Onesies

Booties

Another Pair

Check it out! I've got a bootie thing going on here! (On top of the already enlarged bootie I've got annoyingly attached behind me.)

These are made from wool felt and it was much easier to work with than fleece. I found some basic, pretty colors on a bolt at JoAnn's over in the fleece section.

Because these work up so fast and easy, I've got a whole batch I'm working up today! Now I just need babies to give them to...

(And I can already hear it - those beads look like a choking hazard. Trust me, they're not going anywhere and besides, these booties are so tiny that any baby wearing them won't care about eating beads yet.)

You guys have GOT to try these! (and then send me pictures)

Baby Booties

For those of you who haven't been to one of my MOST favorite websites, you've got to go check it out. Here is the link to "HELLO My Name is Heather". She's got some free patterns, one of which is a pattern for these adorable baby booties in two different sizes.

Once you check out her bootie designs, click on her Flickr group photos and prepare to be amazed. You'll want to make a pair in every way possible after seeing these.

This was an experiment for me to see if I could follow directions and actually make a pair. These booties are a little off, but I used fleece instead of felt and I think felt would have been much easier to work with.

Anyway - now that I know what I'm doing, I can hammer out a few of these!

How tiny! It's pretty amazing how small a newborn's feet can be.

HERE is a great website for beautiful, wool felt in every color you'd love (not like that yucky stuff at Wal-Mart).