Monica Knits

Baby Boy Booties
Design Features: These booties are knit of acrylic, fingering weight yarn in cream with blue trim and soles and accented with contrasting I-cord ties. They feature 1x1 rib, baby cable and garter stitches.

The body of the booty is knit flat, then sewn together at the center back. (I knitted these in the round with two circular needles to mimimize the number of seams to be sewn and speed the process. This left only a foot center bottom seam to sew.)

The body of this two-color bootie is knitted top down, starting with 1/2" of 1 x 1 ribbing in blue and followed by 2-1/2" of mock or baby cable pattern in cream.
Then the pattern becomes a garter stitch with a (K1 YO K2tog) * eyelet pattern in the 3rd row. Next the instep is knitted in garter stitch, after which stitches are picked up around its perimeter. Decreases are worked to shape the foot.

Tips:
Change yarn colors on the right side rows.
The original pattern called for a ribbon tie, but I found ribbon slipped undone too easily so I knit an I cord to lace through the eyelet row.

The pattern, for ages 6 months and 1 year, is found on page 27 of the 1958 edition of: "The New Lux Knitting Book," a book from my mother-in-law's collection.