Cowboy Booties by Corinne Fourcade

Cowboy Booties

Knitting
January 2010
Fingering (14 wpi) ?
34 stitches and 34 rows = 4 inches
in Stockinette stitch
US 1½ - 2.5 mm
206 - 250 yards (188 - 229 m)
0-6 months, 6-12 months
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These booties will make a perfect baby shower gift, and not only for Texan babies!

They have an internal bootie with a boot part added onto it, so that it will stay on baby’s feet.

Necessary skills to make these are: knitting in the round, picking up stitches, Fair Isle knitting
The colour work is charted.

Sizing is obtained by using different needle size and different yarn weight. Yarn and needle information given above is for smaller size. Yardage includes both sizes. Below is the detail per size

Yarn
Size 0-6 months: Colour A: 115 m/126 yards - Colour B:
74 m /80 yards of sock yarn or fingering weight yarn
Size 6-12 months: Colour A: 140 m/150 yards - Colour B: 95 m/100 yards of sport yarn

Bernat Satin Sport Solids for the bigger size

Needles
0-6 months: 2.5mm (US 1½) circular needle or size 2.5mm (US 1½) DPNs and straight needles
6-12 months: 3.25mm (US 3) circular needle or size 3.25mm (US 3) DPNs and straight needles
or needle size needed to obtain gauge

Gauge
0-6 months: 34 sts and 34 rows = 10cm / 4” in St St
6-12 months: 25 sts and 28 rows = 10cm / 4” in St St

Sizes
0- 6 months approximately: Length 9cm / 3.5” - Height 11.5cm / 4.5”
6-12 months approximately: Length 12.5cm / 5” - Height
14cm / 5.5”