This is what happens when a sewing mommy gets anxious for her little one to arrive. Over the weekend, I made two pairs of baby booties. I have two more planned. Clearly, the baby will not need four pairs but since she hasn't arrived yet, I will keep sewing to keep busy! Plus, they are fun and cute and only use the smallest of scraps! I used the Stardust tutorial:The top pair is made of white eyelet with a white on white stripe on the bottom. The bottom pair is made of scraps from my three year old daughter's quilt and dresser scarf. The quilt is pictured below. The ticking stripe was used for many of the diamonds in the center of the quilt. I have been meaning to show a picture of this quilt anyway. It was one of my first quilts. I made the pattern myself and the quilting is a combination of hand quilting and tying.
I can't find a good picture of the dresser scarf but it used the material on the toe of the shoe which is from The Hannah Collection, Anna Griffin for Windham Fabrics. Now, back to booties!
What sweet booties! Love them both. And who knows you may end up using them for special occasions :-)
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Just wanted to say that I love your blog! So creative. I make these booties as well, my daughter is 8 months old and has 15 pairs! Clearly, they are addicting :)
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Hi! Yes, I enlarged the pattern 25%, but then it didn't seem like every part of the pattern needed to be enlarged that much, just the length of the soles, not the width. So I added 1/4" to the toe, heel, heel back strap and length of the top section. Sewed them together with 1/8" and they fit her perfectly (8 months). I used a different tutorial, but the concept is the same. It was easy to make them larger. When she starts walking I am going to look at getting some leather scraps for the bottoms. Take care!! :)
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