New booties

Ladies and gentlemen, we have entered an era of just the cutest children ever. I'm not joking. I usually expect to use my "How darling!" line with about 1 out of 5 or so babies I meet, because it's vague enough to allow the mother to think I'm complimenting the baby's looks, when really I'm referring to the pom-pom buttons on the baby sweater. She never needs to know, right? But in the last year, I've practically retired that phrase, and now most of my exclamatory baby statements are along the lines of "He's/she's so...cute!" or "Wow, this is actually a pretty baby!" No fudging the truth, no vague niceties; just utter astonishment of these adorable little wonders.
I'm excited to see what the next batch of babies holds, as I have a few friends who are due in the next few months. For the sake of the world, I hope this precious-little-pea trend continues.

In the meantime, this pair of booties was the perfect thing to knit up on the long Memorial Day weekend, mostly because, after finishing them, I still had some weekend left.

This yarn is soft as baby feet, though I can't tell you what kind (of yarn, that is), because it was in my scrap stash. I couldn't stop touching these things, twirling them around my finger, admiring how easily they shaped up - and held their shape - without much trying. I also couldn't stop thinking about baby feet, and how they are so short and thick, while still appearing as incredibly dainty versions of their future size 9 dogs. How feet could possibly fit into such little booties is simply beyond my understanding. But they do.

My only regret is that I couldn't do the same project in my size (the aforementioned "size 9 dogs") in so little time.

I found the pattern on Ravelry, but you can get it here.