Baby booties crochet pattern — two feet, 38 rounds written out
A pair of baby booties with a sole about 9 cm long, worked on a 4.0 mm hook in three colours over roughly two and a half hours. The sole grows from 24 stitches to 36 in four rounds, then round 5 goes into the back loops only in sage, and that single ridge is the whole join between a flat sole and a standing wall; rounds 12 and 13 take the count back down to 28 across the instep so the foot closes over the toes. Both booties are written out in full, 19 rounds each, and every round shows the count it finishes on.
Maths verified, not yet made. Every one of the 38 rounds was checked against the round before it by machine — the counts, the increases and the decreases all add up. What nobody can promise you yet is how it sits in the hand.How we check
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Why it is rated Beginner
Beginner: single crochet throughout, and the only shaping is four increases a round across the sole and four decreases on each of rounds 12 and 13.
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00What you need before you start
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What you need before you start
Yarn — three colours, all weight 3
1 ball (about 55 m used for the pair)DK / light worsted, a soft machine-washable cotton or cotton blend
small amount (about 25 m for the pair)DK / light worsted, same fibre as the cream
scraps (about 5 m for the pair)DK / light worsted, same fibre as the cream
Tools
4 you probably ownYou likely have
Tapestry needle
Scissors
Stitch markers
Measuring tape
Optional
A row counter, since nineteen rounds of the same stitch are easy to lose track of
Gauge and finished size
the last check before you cast onTension
Gauge is the size here, and the size is the whole point. Work the four sole rounds, lay the sole against the foot it is for, and change hook before you start the wall. A looser hand gives a bootie for a bigger foot.
Finished size
~18 cm around the ankle, sole ~9 cm long, ~7.5 cm tall — computed from the stitch counts, not fitted
How to make the baby booties, piece by piece
Switching rewrites every round:US24 sc around a foundation chain of 11UK24 dc around a foundation chain of 11Work a US sc as a UK single crochet and the fabric comes out looser and taller.
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01The booties
Two the same. An oval sole grows for four rounds, the wall stands up…19 RNDS
starts in cream· picked up· Piece 1 of 2
First six rounds[24] [28] [32] [36] [36] [36]
The oval sole
RND 1–41[24]
2[28]
3[32]
4[36]
Back loops only, standing the wall up
RND 5–55[36]
Straight up the foot
RND 6–116[36]
7[36]
8[36]
9[36]
10[36]
11[36]
Closing over the instep
RND 12–1312[32]
13[28]
The cuff
RND 14–1914[28]
15[28]
16[28]
17[28]
18[28]
19[28]
US termsscsingle crochetincincreasedecdecreaseBLOback loop onlychchainst(s)stitch, or stitches
When this piece is doneWeave the ends in on the inside of the cuff, where they will not rub. Six rounds of cuff can be worn up or folded down over the ankle.
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02Right bootie
— the same 19 rounds again, worked from piece 0119 RNDS
starts in cream· picked up· Piece 2 of 2· mirrors the booties
First six rounds[24] [28] [32] [36] [36] [36]
1[24]
2[28]
3[32]
4[36]
5[36]
6[36]
7[36]
8[36]
9[36]
10[36]
11[36]
12[32]
13[28]
14[28]
15[28]
16[28]
17[28]
18[28]
19[28]
US termsscsingle crochetincincreasedecdecreaseBLOback loop onlychchainst(s)stitch, or stitches
You are here
Two pieces from one list. One list — the booties — is written once and worked twice, identical round for round; the grey bars are piece length, all drawn to the same scale.38 ROUNDS IN ALL
Seven notes on the baby booties
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01An original Crochet Genie design.
02The fabric is plain single crochet worked in a continuous spiral. It comes out smooth and dense on both faces — there is no ribbing anywhere in these booties, and no openwork. What stretch they have comes from the yarn and from working the cuff at an easy tension, not from the stitch.
03Round 5 is worked in back loops only. It is still 36 single crochet, one stitch in and one stitch out, so the counter reads it as an ordinary round — the free front loops it leaves behind make the ridge that stands the wall up off the sole.
04Chain 11 to begin. Round 1 puts 9 sc along one side of the chain, 3 sc into the end chain, 9 sc back along the underside and 3 sc into the first chain, which comes to 24 stitches around an oval. That is why the sole has no magic ring.
05Nothing is mirrored and nothing is sewn. Both booties are worked identically, and the bend that lifts the top over the instep comes from the four decreases in each of rounds 12 and 13.
06The two colour changes happen at round boundaries: finish round 4 in cream and start round 5 in sage, then go back to cream for round 6 and over to blush for round 14.
07No buttons, ties or hardware anywhere, and nothing that can come loose into a mouth. The sizes on this page are computed from the stitch counts; nobody has made or fitted a pair, so measure the sole against the foot it is for before you work the wall.
Four questions this pattern answers
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How many pieces make up the baby booties?
How much yarn will the baby booties take?
What hook will the baby booties need, and what is the finished size?
How long will the baby booties take to crochet?
A round that will not add up?
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