Scrap Busters!

I am excited about tonight's post!  Probably not as excited as my husband though.  One of the hazards of a crochet hobby is lots of small amounts of left over yarn.  Me, being a good child who was raised by a Depression Child, cannot throw certain things away, like leftover yarn.  Now there is a point at which enough is enough and nothing can be made out of the yarn because there is simply not enough there to work with.


After doing several of the projects featured on this blog, I had quite a collection of small amounts of yarn.  So I set out on a quest to find patterns for little things I could go through this collection with.  And here is what I found!

Booties

First I found this super cute and easy bootie pattern.  I was looking for a pattern for baby socks and kept getting results for booties.  So I went with it, after some frustration with the all-knowing internet.

Here is the fun with these booties: they can be slippers or more like boots.  They are the closest thing I found to newborn socks.  They will be super toasty on those chilly nights.

Newborn Mitts

The other cute pattern I found was for newborn mittens.  These crack me up because they look like they could be coin purses or something of the like.  

These are easy to make for boys or girls and they have a drawstring to hold them on.  For mammas who have winter babies, these are great to keep your little one's hand warm.  Or if you have a little one who has long fingernail (or they grow quickly and mom does not have time to keep up with them).