crochet baby booties free pattern

Crochet Baby Booties Free Patternby MoiraCrochets99 Followers

Table of Contents:

Required Skill

Measurements

Materials and Tools

Notes

Special Stitch: The Pineapple

Stitch

Abbreviation

Written Pattern (with Photo

Tutorial: How to Crochet the

Pineapple Stitch)

Chart Pattern

Changing Colors (Video)

HAILE'S (Pineapple Stitch) Baby Booties

Oh babies! They're just so cute and

cuddly and you just want to adorn them

with all the cute things you can make

and find like this pair of crocheted baby

shoes!

Since I'm giving birth this November

2012, I decided to crochet these cute

pairs of shoes. And since they're super

cute, I'm sharing the pattern with

everyone. I hope you make one for your

newborns, too.

The sole of the shoe is a simple oval of

dc's.

The body of the shoe uses pineapple

stitch, a vintage crochet stitch you can

hardly find in modern patterns. The

pineapple stitches are worked in a

spiral and decreased at various points to achieve the shoe's shape.

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Close up on the toe. See those beautifulhearts piling over each other? I love them.

Close up on the heel. It's curved to fit nicely(hopefully) on my baby's heels.

The sole of the shoe is slightly raised.

The decreases of the pineapple stitches folds the sole up giving the shoe more

interest.

This pattern includes a high resolution chart pattern along with the written pattern.

The chart pattern took 3 days to make. But for a pattern this beautiful, it's all worth it.

Required Skills:

Ch, dc, sl st

Working on both sides of the chain

Working multiple dc's in single

chain

Pineapple stitch

Optional: changing colors

Materials:

Size 8 mercerized crochet cotton

3/0 - 4/0 steel hook

Tapestry needle

Scissors

Measurements:

Length: 3.5 in

Width: 1.5 inc

Height: 1 in

Gauge: 8 dc per inch; 5 pineapple stitch

per inch

Notes:

I have not actually fitted these shoes to

a newborn baby. The measurements I

used is based on this size chart.


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The sole is an oval of dc's.

When turned inside out, the texture is sobeautiful too!

The sole is 4 inch long while crocheting.

Once the body of pineapple stiches is

added, the sole folds up reducing it's

length to 3.5 in.

The pineapple stitch has a tendency to

lean. Therefore, when examined closely

a pair of shoes looks like two left shoes.

To remedy that, I used flowers to define

the left and right shoe.

The shoe can be lengthened or

shortened by adjusting the foundation

chain. All shaping stitches occur at the

heel and toe.

Special Stitch: The Pineapple Stitch

I discovered the pineapple stitch in a vintage crochet book from our college library. I

love the look of inverted hearts piled over each other and the thick textured crochet

fabric it produces.

However, to crochet a rectangle of pineapple stitches, you have to break off at the

end of each row which can automatically become fringes. But working this way is

cumbersome, wastes a lot of yarn, and well, uhm, boring.

But who said that's the only way to work the pineapple stitch?

In most of my projects, I crochet the pineapple stitch spirally in rounds. It's more

convenient this way even though I end up with pineapple stitches that don't pile up in

a straight vertical line even when blocked.


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Close up on the heel showing a normal pineapple stitch and a 3-pineapple stitch decrease.

Close up on the toe showing the last dc round of the sole and 2-pineapple stitch decrease.

Parts of the Pineapple Stitch

Instructions will be much easier to comprehend if we all know the parts of the

pineapple stitch.

Top Loop - connects the pineapple stitch to other stitches

Leg Loops - anchors the pineapple stitch; a normal pineapple stitch will have two leg

loops while a pineapple stitch decrease will have more leg loops.

Lid Chain - caps the pineapple stitch to make the "heart" pattern more pronounced

How to Make a Pineapple Stitch

In this pattern, there are four different sets of instructions on how to crochet a

conventional pineapple stitch depending where it is anchored. All of them are in a

photo tutorial floating next to the written pattern.

The following instruction is for the very first pineapple stitch worked on top of

another stitch (like dc's or sc's or ch's).

THE CURRENT LOOP ON HOOK WILL BE THE TOP LOOP.

INSERT HOOK IN ST, DRAW A LOOP THROUGH.


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Abbreviations:

Ch - chain

Dc - double crochet

Sl st - slip stitch

Ps - pineapple stitch

2psdec - two pineapple stitch

decrease

3psdec - three pineapple stitch

decrease

Y o - yarn over

How to Crochet Pineapple Stitchon Top of Other Stitches

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FIRST PINEAPPLE STITCH: Insert the hookin the first st (ch, dc, etc.), and draw a loop

through. The right loop will be the TOP LOOPwhile the left loop will be the first LEG LOOP.

How to Crochet PineappleStitches on Top of PineappleStitches


THIS WILL BE THE FIRST LEG LOOP.

SKIP A ST, INSERT HOOK IN NEXT ST, DRAW A LOOP THROUGH.

THIS WILL BE THE SECOND LEG LOOP.

Y O, DRAW THROUGH 3 LOOPS ON HOOK, CH 1.

THE CH-1 WILL BE THE LID CHAIN OF THE JUST-FORMED PINEAPPLE STITCH.

WRITTEN PATTERN

TO MAKE A SHOE

//Pattern Begins//

Foundation Chain: Ch 23

Round 1: 6 dc in 4th ch from hook, 18

dc, 7 dc in the last ch. (Work on the

other side of the chain.) 18 dc, sl st to

turning ch, ch 3, TURN.

Stitch count: 49 dc's + (turning ch

equivalent to a dc) = 50 dc's

Round 2: 18 dc, (2 dc in next dc) 7x, 18

dc, (2 dc in next dc) 6x, dc on top of

turning ch from Round 1, sl st to turning

ch of Round 2, ch 3, TURN.



Round 3: 2 dc in dc, (dc, 2 dc in next

dc) 6x, 18 dc, (dc, 2 dc in next dc) 7x,

18 dc, sl st to turning ch, ch 3, TURN.



Note: The sole of the shoe is done.

The succeeding rounds will use

pineapple stitches (ps) worked in a

continuous spiral till the shoe is

finished.

HOW TO CROCHET PINEAPPLE STITCH ON

TOP OF DC'S (see photos floating right)

First PS: Insert hook in first dc, draw a loop

through, skip a dc, insert hook in next dc, draw a

loop through, y o, draw through 3 loops, ch 1.

Succeeding PS: Insert hook in same dc, draw a

loop through, skip a dc, insert hook in next dc,


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FIRST PINEAPPLE STITCH: Insert hook inTOP LOOP and draw a loop through.

How to Crochet 2psdec and3psdec


2psdec: Insert hook in SAME top loop, drawa loop through, (insert hook in NEXT top

loop, draw a loop through) 2x. Now we have4 loops on hook.

draw a loop through, y o, draw through 3 loops, ch

1.

Round 4: 39 ps, DO NOT turn. Work

the 1st ps of the next round directly on

top of the 1st ps of this round.

Stitch count: 39 ps

HOW TO CROCHET PINEAPPLE STITCH ON

TOP OF ANOTHER PINEAPPLE STITCH (see

photos floating right)

First PS: Insert hook in top loop, draw a loop

through, insert hook in next top looop, draw a loop

through, y o, draw through 3 loops, ch 1.

Succeeding PS: Insert hook in same top loop, draw

a loop through, insert hook in next top loop, draw a

loop through, y o, draw through 3 loops, ch 1.

2psdec: Insert hook in same top loop, draw a loop

through, (insert hook in next top loop, draw a loop

through) 2x, y o, draw through 4 loops on hook.

Round 5: 6 ps, 2psdec, 11 ps, 2psdec,

18 ps, DO NOT turn.

Stitch count: 35 ps + 2 (2psdec) = 37


18 ps, DO NOT turn.



18 ps, DO NOT turn.



11 ps, 2psdec, 5 ps, DO NOT turn.


3psdec: Insert hook in same top loop, draw a loop through, (insert hook in next top loop, draw a loop

through) 3x, y o, draw through 5 loops on hook.

Round 9: 6 ps, 2psdec, 3psdec, 2psdec, 10 ps, 3psdec, 4ps, DO NOT turn.

Stitch count: 20 ps + 2 (2psdec) + 2 (3psdec) = 24

Round 10: (Sl st in lid chain, sl st in top loop) 24x.


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Flowers defined the left and right shoe.

Break off and weave in ends.

//Pattern Ends//

Optional: Crochet Flowers

Big Flower (Puny Puff Flower)

This flower pattern appeared in my hub

3D Pointed-Center Crochet Flower as

Puny Puff Flower.

//Pattern begins//

CH 5, SL ST TO FORM RING.

(CH 2, PUFF, CH 3, SL ST IN RING) 5X.BREAK OFF AND WEAVE IN ENDS.

//Pattern ends//

Small Flower

This is a very small and simple flower pattern I made to complement the Puny Puff

Flower.

//Pattern begins//

CH 3, SL ST TO FORM RING.

(CH 3, SL ST IN RING) 5X. BREAK OFF AND WEAVE IN ENDS.

//Pattern ends//

CHART PATTERN



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Haile's (Pineapple Stitch) Baby Booties Chart Pattern

Changing Colors (Video)

Working this shoe in various colors adds and/or changes this shoes' personality.

Here's a very good video tutorial for changing colors in crochet.

Last updated on September 29, 2012


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