I am so excited to share this with you!
A few months ago, I received an email from Brianna Thomas asking me if I would be interested in designing a pattern with her; exclusively for Furls. I of course, jumped at the chance!
Bri emailed me her design idea – a beautifully hand-drawn image of a pair of strawberry baby booties.
Bri’s vision for these booties was so unique – she wanted one to showcase the strawberry flower bloom and the second to be the sweet strawberry. She wanted the baby booties to have a wrap-around white satin ribbon tie to hold them in place when worn.
It was my job to create the crochet pattern to match Bri’s vision of the baby booties as closely as possible.
I always love a challenge and this was no exception!
I created the crochet pattern using a Bloodwood (4.5 mm) Alpha Series Crochet Hook from Furls and multiple colours of Berroco Weekend Yarn (Reddy, Daisy, Lemon, Forest). The yarn is spectacular to crochet with (so soft and smooth!) and the Berroco Colours are so vibrant and bright.
It was an absolute pleasure to crochet with the Berroco Yarn and Furls Bloodwood Crochet Hook.
The booties are worked in continuous rounds and I provided a number of tutorial photos for the bits you might need a visual to understand – like where to attach the ribbon to the slipper base.
The Sweet as Strawberry Baby Booties Pattern is available in one size: 6-12 month and you can get your free pdf copy of this pattern from Furls here: Free Furls Patterns
I am very pleased with how the booties turned out and I love seeing the adorable model wearing them – she looks so happy in her photo shoot photos!
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about the pattern after you download it from Furls. I would be happy to help!
These are perfect to go with the strawberry beanies my day care kiddos love so much. Thank you for sharing this adorable pattern.
These are just to adorable! My daughter is having twins and these will be perfect for the girl!
Thanks Rhondda for this lovely pattern, is there a link to Furls re the actual yarn, please?
Also, is there any other way of attaching the ribbon, so it doesn’t actually go up Baby’s leg, as I find these types of ties tend to end up around Baby’s ankles…lol…great for the pics, but not very practical for Mum….
I think I would like a little more bootee length & maybe some tiny holes where the ribbon could be slotted through….maybe not to the designers brief exactly, but eminently more practical, methinks!
I am very grateful for the pattern, though, and beautifully interpreted from the design! You are so talented.
Peace and Love dear Rhondda…
Sylvia from Sydney Australia! xx
Hi Sylvia,
You are very welcome 🙂
The booties actually are designed with a crochet loop at the heel to allow you to thread the ribbon through at the back of the ankle and you can cut and tie just enough to tie around the ankle once – you don’t need a large length to wrap around the leg. You can choose the length and even the thickness of the ribbon to work for you…or alternately you could crochet a tie with yarn instead 🙂 You could add a strap across the top of the foot instead too if you prefer – with a button on the ankle on either (or even both sides). I think you could weave a ribbon between the stitches directly beneath the leaves around the foot too if you wanted and use it to cinch at the back of the slipper to hold the booties in place.
Hope this helps 🙂 Rhondda
I can’t see where to comment on the other page so I’ll leave my comment here. I’ve followed for a long time now and enjoy all your posts but have found a couple that I must have missed. Like these adorable strawberry booties and the picket fence stitch. Now all I need is a baby to make them for! Thank you!
Rhondda, these are so adorable!! Thank you for sharing!!
Thank you Melissa 🙂 I’m happy you like them!