Latest project - more crocodile stitch baby bootees!

I'm thinking of making a baker boy cap to go with these, or alternatively a hat and nappy cover I saw in a book of baby crochet patterns I bought a while ago - if I can find the book in question. I think I know where it is, but I may be mistaken!

Anyway, I've had the yarn for ages and ages...I love sock yarn, in all its marvellous multi-coloured wonderfulness, and this is a particularly lovely mix of blues, whites, and browny-pinks. It's working up into a lovely tweedy effect. It's what's known as fingering weight in US parlance and needs a 3.25 mm or D size crochet hook, so it's really quite fine. I only actually have three balls of it, I think, but I do have plenty of matching weight yarn in pale blue and a slightly darker blue that I can use to augment it if need be.

 The first row of scales for the crocodile stitch area have been done and I am just starting on row two. The pattern is again, of course, from Bonita Patterns. It's exactly the same as the  pale green and yellow pair made for our granddaughter that I blogged about previously.

I really love this yarn! It's viscose, oddly enough, not a material I often work with but is lovely and silky to the touch while being hard-wearing. Just what you want for socks and baby bootees!

The soles are a simple single crochet, the foot part is a mix of front and back post half double crochets to produce that wonderful ribbed effect, and the ankle part is crocodile stitch. If you've never tried crocodile stitch before yourself, it's a combination of V stitches (half double crochet, chain one, half double crochet in the same stitch) and front post half double crochets worked around the sides of each V made, top to bottom on the right side and bottom to top on the left. It requires turning the work on its side to make the left side of each scale, which is one reason why I end up boggle eyed after working on it for any length of time!