From this article you will learn how to crochet booties with your own hands. For a child, this is indispensable shoes. They are comfortable, soft and warm the legs in the cold. If a mother or grandmother learns to knit them, then on the baby’s leg they will sit perfectly. After all, you will take into account all the features of the structure of the foot, rise, width, length.
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Soft warm booties crochet - this is the first shoes for a child from 0 to six months. It is in them that it will be convenient for the baby to take the first steps. Such shoes warm the legs well, does not rub the foot. Even booties are more tightly attached to the lower part of the sliders, delight the kids with their beautiful look. Then it will be described how to create shoes with your own hands, what types of children's home -made shoes are, how to beautifully decorate them for little girls, boys.
How to crochet booties?
If you decide to tie off the booties, then first of all decide which threads should be selected for the product. There are many diverse yarn on the yarn market. But it is undesirable for children to wear booties from synthetic threads so that there is no irritation. Therefore, opt for yarn with cotton fibers, acrylic, or bamboo threads. Further in more detail:
It is not very scary that acrylic yarn has an artificial basis. If you knit warm high slippers from a child from only cotton threads, they will come out somewhat harsh, and with an admixture of acrylic, the booties will become softer, they will be better to keep their shape. Thanks to acrylics, the threads will be stronger, it is smaller to bend.
Threads such as Yarnart Jeans are perfect for light children's booties, they contain 55 percent of cotton woven up and 45 percent of acrylic fibers. For the baby, it is enough to take only 150 grams of yarn. These are three skeins of threads.
To tie warm booties crochet, experienced knitters advise choosing threads Alize Baby (Wool),as in the image above. You can still opt for the same brand of yarn, but marked - Batik. The compositions of the threads include fibers such as acrylic, wool, bamboo. There are about 50 grams of product in one skein. The hook is selected in size to threads. The marking usually indicates which size is compatible with threads.
Please note: not all children can endure woolen things. Clothing, shoes from this yarn irritate the skin, then it can itch.
After selecting yarn, pay attention to the size of the booties for the child. To determine the size, remove the following measurements: width, leg length.
Important: If you knit the booties with crochet a child, then so that the size is perfect, to the size of the foot that you measured, add 1 or 2 centimeters. After all, booties are more often worn on sliders or tights, and the child’s leg grows quickly.
Sometimes there is no way to measure the size of the baby’s leg, then you can use the approximate table of the size of the children's leg. Here is a direct dependence of the length of the foot on the age of the baby.
- In newborns up to three months, the size of the foot is about 10 centimeters
- In babies up to six months of age-about 11 centimeters
- For children up to one year old, booties with a size of about 12 centimeters are suitable for children
- In a child until a year and a half, the leg grows another 1-2 centimeters (13-14 centimeters)
- Children under two years old wear this size of shoes: about 14-15 centimeters.
Attention: the size of the foot is measured by the protruding points of the heel to the top of the longest finger.
Knitting pattern for beginners
It is not difficult to crochet booties for a child, you only need to learn some rules for reading the schemes, familiarize yourself with the designations and how to knit a particular column, or a loop crochet. Then look at the image how to crochet booties in the simplest way. If you learn to knit these booties, then in the future you can easily master the schemes and more complicated.
See the image below. They begin to knit booties from the sole, then they knit the sides, then the mouse and at the end they are already knitted by the boot.
For summer booties, the knitting scheme consisting of a simpler, consisting of a sole, a side, a toe without a lower leg.
How to crochet booties to a child?
- First stop knit. Moreover, you can use different variations for the knitting of the sole, taking into account the size of the baby’s legs. For a wide leg of the child, it is better to use a foot with an oval shape, for a narrow foot, a special knitting scheme is used, where the heel is narrowed, thanks to this, shoes will sit well on the leg.
- At the top in the picture there is knitting scheme of the sole. At first, twelve VPs are collected, then they continue to knit in a circle columns with crochet. Moreover, on the heel and sock they are knitted 3ssn for the design of the rounding. In the next circle there are SSN and so on along the drawing until you tie the desired length of the sole of the booties.
- To make it more beautiful, you can separate the boundaries of the sole with white yarn and pinettes. You can knit a SBN product, or you can apply a beautiful pattern with alternating yarn flowers. The sides are already noticeable parts of the booties, so decorate them as it is convenient for you.
- The start of their knitting is best done for the rear half of the set insoles. Thanks to this, a beautiful border between insole and sides will form. The height of the booties is made depending on the height of the baby's feet, about this distance from the sole to the bone on the leg, or rather the ankles.
- Mysk In our case, it is knitted according to the same scheme as the foot, only it is less than twice less. It can be knitted and immediately with the product, and separately, and then attached to the sides.
- The boot of tweezers Knit with such a pattern that you like, you can knit ordinary crochet columns, or you can use openwork weaving. In order not to lose boots, you can use lacing or tapes, elastic bands.
Tie the booties can be different patterns. This refers to the back of the products at the edges so that a finished look is felt. The most ordinary method is a pattern of a racing step, it is most often used. And he looks wonderful. Look above how to strain in this way.
Crochet boot
Crochet booties most often begin to knit from the sole. This is one of the main parts of the product. The sole can be tied in various ways. Then you will see examples of schemes for knitting insoles in different performance. For children with a chubby leg, use an oval insole knitting without narrowing of the heel.
Examples of schemes with a description:
Crochet booties for newborns - photo
You saw what are the ways of knitting tweezers and soles crocheted. After the process of knitting the first booties with crochet, you will understand what the secrets of skill to create these products are. Then you will begin to put them in practice. And thanks to imagination, you will create various products. If you have no ideas, then you can borrow them here. Next, look which booties can be crochet, how to decorate them, which accessories are used to decorate products.
Below are booties for newborns without shafts. You can tie them very quickly. For the design of products, pretty tapes are used. They also perform a practical function - hold shoes on the legs.
These booties will decorate the legs of the girl. They are knitted with an openwork pattern. Blue ribbons are tied into holes, and the bottom is decorated with small pearl beads.
The cool head of the elephant can be sewn in advance of the product. Such products look unique. The head is knitted separately, then stuffed with synthetic winterizer.
White booties are suitable for newborn girls for the rite of baptism.
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