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Love, love, LOVE that shade of blue! :)

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The yarn is Hobby Lobby ‘I Love This Yarn’ & the color is called 96/Stonewash.

The PT tech, when I asked her favorite color (for a pair of fingerless mitts), said blue & more specifically ‘Carolina’ blue (UNC’s color although she is not a fan). I had “Carolina blue” on my phone & was comparing it to 3 shades of blue that were in the ball park & ‘Stonewash’ was the closest match. It really is a pretty shade of blue - I think she’ll like the mitts.

I finished bootie #2 last night (well, early this morning at 1:15 am!) so now I am “playing”. With one pair of booties available for the shower gift, I’ll mess around today (raining outside - no garden work), but then I need to get busy finishing the hairpin lace/crochet scarf - the deadline will be here before I know it!

Here is the link for a whole bunch of booties:

25 Quick and Cute Knit Baby Booties Patterns
https://lovelifeyarn.com/knit-baby-booties/

The booties are numbered, so here are my comments:

#2 - the booties I made

#7 - ‘basic booties’ - I found some baby yarn & I am going to try these next. You can use Judy’s Magic Cast On to avoid seaming the sole, which I will do. Checking the pattern, this looks a lot like the bootie I made already, but with a ribbed cuff. The baby yarn I found is a lighter weight (light 3) & in shades of blue with white.

#11 - these are the booties that initially caught my eye & I would LOVE to make them. I can do cables. Two things: need a light fingering weight yarn which I do not have & it’s worked flat. I think I saw where someone worked them in the round - I’ll have to look into possibly converting the pattern after I finish the ‘fair’ scarf.

#18 - I LOVE these booties. Original pattern is in Russian, but there is an English translation. Knit flat & require seaming; however, they might be worth it with the complex design.

#19 - very simple looking booties, knit in the round after the sole - I downloaded the pattern for future consideration.

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BTW, if you know this already, that’s GREAT - if you do not, it’s a fantastic way to save patterns that are on a website (no download available).

Pull up ‘Print Friendly’: https://www.printfriendly.com/

Put web link into the form & let Print Friendly do its thing - you can then delete anything you do not want (multiple pics or any writing that is not the pattern - I delete anything I don’t want to print & waste ink).

Once you get it as you like it, Print Friendly will convert it to a PDF that you can save. I cannot tell you how many patterns I’ve saved that were on a website & I’ve used Print Friendly to make them into a PDF. I had to do this for #18 above - deleted all the Russian instructions/writing & kept the English version.

Note: rarely, a website just won’t load into Print Friendly - I’ve had that happen mostly on non-pattern articles that I wanted to print off a website for my folks. Most websites with patterns load just fine.