Though I am still young and am waiting to have a baby for a while, I am still hopelessly attracted to cute little vintage baby items. (Yes, call me crazy) The nostalgic feeling these little clothes give is so cozy. I rationalize that I will have more time now to knit these things up then years down the road when pregnant. When I found endlessly wonderful baby knits in a 1941 Monarch baby pattern magazine, how could I resist? I also have a penchant for luxury. Cashmere gives these vintage baby clothes heirloom quality, liable to be passed down through generations. (Well, I can hope at least!) I trimmed this off with cream colored silk ribbon that I bought spools of once. I sewed a zig zag stitch on the edge to give it some accent color. I have quite the ribbon fetish lately thinking of all the ways it can accent knit garments.

Yarn Used: 3 ply pink 100% cashmere hand twisted from 1 ply cashmere from ColormartUK for me. Booties took roughly a little less than one 50g ball of cashmere.

Gauge & Needle Size: 8 stitches per inch on size 2 needles.

Time Spent Knitting: Each bootie took a day. I roughly estimate about 5 hours each.

New Skills Learned: I have never made a sock or bootie ever. This was a great introduction. Bootie is knit on two needles. You basically knit down to the ankle, turn work knitting back and forth in the center of the bootie. This turned area becomes the top part of the foot. You then pick up stitches along the sides of this long middle part working down the sides of the foot. When done you seam down the back.

Frusterations or changes / clarification made to pattern: I acutally had no big problems with this pattern. I do wish the decreases made in the heal were not done at the very edge of the row. This made seaming a little more frusterating. Perhaps my next bootie project I can modify this area in the pattern.