awwww....no
You know how all booties look adorable on little babies? Someone thought the same principle would apply to adults. Yes, these are written for adult sizes only. Eep.
posted by Rebekah @ 7:31 PM
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The Needle and the Damage Done
Commemorating knittrocities since 2006
25 September, 2006
You know how all booties look adorable on little babies? Someone thought the same principle would apply to adults. Yes, these are written for adult sizes only. Eep.
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- Name: Rebekah
- Location: Burlington, Vermont, United States
I have a secret fondness for knitted lace, and a not-so-secret loathing of Cosby sweaters.
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Actually, a great-grandmother of mine used to send the whole family (adults included, most of whom lived in California or the southwest) booties like these every Christmas. They were made out of the most horrible scratchy acrylic ever and in day-glo colors. Even if we had been masochistic enough to wear them, one trip down the staircase would have ended in tragedy.
Eep, indeed.
My mother used to make us ones from a pattern my great-grandma used until she was like 90. They were basically squares folded and sewed into a slipper shape. With bells attached to the toes. So compared to that, these are high fashion!
I still have the rose-colored pair my mother made! I think I wore them once. Yes, very slippery -- even more so than regular socks. Danger! But these in the picture really do look like baby booties. Sheesh.
Sure beats the seam-down-the-bottom-of-the-foot plastic booties they want you to wear if you're ever in the hospital. So there's one place I could see wearing these, if you really wanted to wear something handknit but you didn't want to wear out your handknit socks by walking on them there.
My grandma and aunt used to make the square foldover slippers Rebekah's talking about, but crocheted. I don't believe such things were ever done in appealing color combinations. I remember safety yellow and brown, fuschia and aqua, orange (not peach) and seafoam green...
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