Bootees and Heart Socks

Baby bootees are fun to make for new baby gifts. They use up little bits of super-soft yarn. These are made from Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino (oh, if only I could afford an afghan out of that stuff...) from a pattern in 50 baby bootees to knit by Zoe Mellor.

While looking through the book, I saw a great pattern for fair isle socks. The pattern used fine yarn and made socks for a 3-6 month old.  P and I liked the design very much.  I decided to knit them from my recent homespun yarn. 

I didn't want to knit the same sock again (there's that second sock syndrome showing up again), so I knit the second one as a negative.

Since my homespun was thicker, the socks turned out bigger. They are a bit large for P now but after the photo shoot yesterday morning she did not want to take them off and wore them all day!  They will be great snow socks for next winter!