Not a baby afghan, for once.

For once, I took the advice of just about everyone in my knitting group and did not crochet or knit an entire afghan for an expected baby. These are for a coworker, whose second baby boy should be appearing in another week or so. We missed our chance to have a shower for her first baby because she left for her maternity leave before she (and we!) had planned for her to be out of the office, so we made up for it by having a small shower for the second baby.

These are crocheted from a little book of bootie patterns that I picked up a while ago. This is a very clever little pattern, something that I don't think you could do if you were knitting instead. They're done in two pieces; first the round wagon-wheel pattern on the top of the foot, then you chain out into space and back to form the part that goes around the heel, and then from there down to the sole. Then you pick up at the chain again and work up to finish the top part that sits around the ankle. Sew in a bit of elastic, just to make sure they stay put, and you're done! Took only a few hours to finish, and could have been a bit quicker if I'd paid a bit closer attention to what I was doing. (I did have to frog a bit of the first one because I was distracted by the movie I was watching.) Welcome to Baby K!