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Teeny Tiny Heart Sandals {Crochet Pattern}

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I have a new crochet pattern for baby sandals!!!

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You might know my Flower Power Sandals pattern, this started as a simple variation of that…. and ended as a complete redesign!

These sandals are, I think, a great improvement, they are double soled for sturdiness, a better fit, less stitching together is required and I am actively working on the patterns for multiple sizes.

Also they are adorable!

I will be working on a photo tutorial but as I’m sure you appreciate that is a lot of work and I have yet to find the time! But it is coming soon!

Edit: This is a long post already with just one size written out (I don’t know why I started with 6-9 months?!) but I am going to leave it as is and put the other sizes into a single PDF download. I think it will be clearer, and it will have the bonuses of being available offline and easily printable. Keep a look out at the weekend!!!

Edit 26/5/15: I have recently had lots of requests for the pdf file and different sizes for this pattern… I am SO sorry! This is not currently available which is why it cannot be found at this time. It is my intention to put them up but it still requires some work and I have a new baby and other responsibilities that must currently come first. My sincere apologies for any disappointment!

As usual, this is a FREE pattern, please do not sell or reproduce this pattern elsewhere. You are welcome to sell items you make from my patterns but please give design credit and when relevant please link back here. Also, please do not use any of my photos without my express permission and giving appropriate credit. Thank you!

Teeny Tiny Heart Sandals (6-9 months)

Materials:
2 or 3 colours of aran weight cotton yarn (Rico Creative Cotton or Drops Paris are good)
3.5mm, 3mm & 2.5mm hooks
darning needle

I’m using UK terminology, these are the stitches and abbreviations being used.
st(s) = stitch(es)
ch = chain
ss = slip stitch
dc = double crochet (single crochet U.S)
htr = half treble (half double U.S)
htr2tog = half treble 2 together
tr = treble (double crochet U.S)
RS = right side

This pattern makes one sandal beginning to end, work through twice for the pair!

Sole (make 2)

Using a 3.5mm hook chain 15.

R1) Work 3dc in 2nd ch from hook, dc in the next 6 ch, htr in the next ch, tr in the next 5 ch, 7tr in the last ch. Working along the opposite side, tr in the next 5ch, htr in the next ch, dc in the next 6 ch. DO NOT FASTEN OFF. If it is helpful to you place a marker in the last st and move up each round.

R2) Beginning in the top of the first st of the previous round.
2dc in the next 3 sts, htr in the next 13 sts, 2htr in the next 5 sts, htr in the next 13 sts.

R3) Beginning in the top of the first st of the previous round.
[htr in the next st, 2htr in the next st] 3 times, htr in the next 13 sts, [htr in next st, 2htr in next st] 5 times, htr in the next 13 sts. Slip stitch in to the next st and fasten off.

Place the two soles wrong sides together. Starting at the centre stitch of the heel end slip stitch the soles together.
(I used a contrasting colour here that I would also use for the heel, toe strap etc.. but this is up to you.)

Heel

Turn the sole so that the back loop (not the ‘v’) of the slip stitches is facing you, these single loops are what we will be stitching in to.

R1) Find the centre of the heel which should be between to sl sts, count along 9 sts to the right, this is your starting point.
Using a 3.5mm hook, join your yarn and ch2 (these chs do NOT count as a st), starting in the same st, htr in each of teh next 18 sts.

R2) Turn your work, ch3 (DOES count as a st), temporarily drop this yarn but DO NOT fasten off, skip a st and join a new colour, [ch2, tr, ch1, tr, htr] in the next st, *skip 3 sts, in the next st [htr, tr, ch1, tr, htr]* repeat ** twice more, fasten this colour off. These are your heart clusters.

R3) Pick up your original yarn, *sl st into the back loop of the first st of the heart cluster, dc into the ch space, sl st into the back loop of the 3rd heart st, tr into the 2nd sk st of previous round* repeat twice more, then sl st into the back loop of the first st of the heart cluster, dc into the ch space, sl st into the back loop of the 3rd heart st, tr into the last sk st.

R4) Turn your work, ch1 (do NOT count as a st), dc in each st across.

R5) Turn your work, ch1, *htr in the next st, htr2tog starting in the same st, htr in the finishing st of the htr2tog, sl st in the next st, sl st in the next st*, repeat ** to the end, finishing with only one sl st, fasten off.

Ankle Ties

Using a 2.5mm hook, ch 40, sl st to the first st on the top left side of the heel, sl st in the next st, fasten off.
Repeat attaching to the right hand side.

Toe Strap

The toe strap is crocheted into the same sl st back loops as the heel. Starting on the right hand side of the sandal as it faces you, count along 9 sts, this is your starting point.

R1) Using a 3.5mm hook, ch2 (do NOT count as a st) htr in the same st as ch2, htr in next two sts. (This is back towards the heel)

R2-9) Turn work, ch2 (do NOT count as a st) htr across.

R10) sl st into the opposite side of the sole, starting in the 7th st down from the heel. (You should be crocheting towards the toe end.) Fasten off.

Heart

Using a 3mm hook, make a magic circle, into it ch2, 5 htr, ch1, tr, ch1, 5 htr, ch2, sl st. Pull the circle to a tight close and fasten off leaving long tail ends.

Using the tail ends stitch the heart to the centre of the toe strap.

You are done!

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Hopefully you have a pair of sandals that look something like these!

Please feel free to leave me a comment if you have any questions, or just to say hi!

Happy Hooking!

Naomi x2

 

happy moments…

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… quite often involve hooky time for me and not as often as I would like include home making.

Given that my primary role is that of housewife or homemaker I am trying a lot harder to a) be better at it, b) enjoy home making much more, and c) remember why I am a homemaker in the first place!

This week while floating around the blog world I came upon this Homemakers Creed from The Time Warp Wife. It pretty well sums up just what I believe and am striving for and it is available as a freebie on her blog if you like it too 🙂

homemakers creedSo now I am finally finding the joy (or choosing to find the joy!) in my daily tasks and I can think of them as happy moments too…. but don’t worry, there is still plenty of crochet happening here too!

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::: Doing the dishes is probably my most disliked household job. I’m not even entirely sure why if I’m honest, which is ridiculous in itself. However, in a bid to help me choose joy, I am in the process of cheering up my sink area – bright colours, a little herb plant, crochet cloths, and a cute oversized teacup & saucer that acts as a ring keeper and washing up liquid holder. Small things really, but I can’t tell you how much it helps to get me motivated out there, and once I have some music on the repetitiveness of washing up is really quite relaxing, now I choose it to be!

laundry-joy

::: Laundry I don’t think I have ever really minded doing, even if it is never ending and one little person can produce as much as 3 adults! Having recently lived 3 weeks without a working washing machine I have never been more grateful for this modern convenience and more thrilled by the sight of fresh laundry on the line!

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::: Oh here are those happy crochet moments as promised… 😉 Some mandala love at last! The plan is to make maybe 3 more and turn them into a feature on one of our front room walls. Even better than this, is that the Mr seems quite keen on the idea!

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::: A new & improved sandal pattern – prototype pair… Excited about these… Pattern coming in the next week or so!!! 🙂

granny-joy

::: Lastly some good old fashioned granny square appreciation! We were out and about yesterday an I needed something to I could do in waiting rooms/trains etc… I originally just intended this to be a colourful dish cloth or flannel… But I love it too much so now it will most likely become a cushion cover!

I missed my happy homemaker post yesterday but these have been some of my happy moments today 🙂

Naomi x2

 

 

 

my ideal night out!

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For months now there has been some conversation between myself and some friends at church about getting together for some yarn play. On Thursday night we finally got organised and four of us spent the evening together chatting, eating and more importantly crocheting!

The lovely B who hosted us had set the scene for the evening so perfectly, I don’t think I could have dreamed it up any better. It was the first time I had visited her house, which is a beautiful old farm house. I so wish I’d thought to take photos on the way in but when we left it was far too dark 🙁

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We walked into her sitting room, full of exposed beams and a huge open fire place, and found a coffee table set with piles of knitting and crochet magazines and pattern books, some vintage and some modern.

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At the end of the room B had baked up a storm and laid on a gorgeous spread of evening snacks across the sideboard. On top of that the music playing in the background included Doris Day – retro wonderfulness!

So we had been at B’s for roughly 10 minutes and I was already pretty ecstatic and we hadn’t even got out our hooks 🙂

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I also wanted to share with you this quick snap (oh I should mention that it was late and all these photos are taken with my phone…) B presented me with a box file full of patterns that had been saved by her grandma dating back some years. There were sewing, knitting, crochet and embroidery patterns which I loved looking through…. but I’m always drawn to the old printed adverts for things like ‘Beechams Powders’…. which I completely failed to take photos of!

Right, on with the hooky stuff!

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This is lovely F, who is expecting a beautiful, bouncing baby quite honestly any day now! Exciting! She hadn’t picked up a crochet hook until this week I believe. The natural starting point was of course a trusty granny square, and she is planning to make a large granny square baby blanket. There was some frogging but it was going really well 🙂

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This is the lovely R, she has been teaching herself to crochet for a little while and wanted to move on from granny squares to something new. Specifically a chunky flower scarf pattern by Debbie Stoller from her book The Happy Hooker. I’m glad to say that R thought it was going to be more difficult than she actually found it to be 🙂

You can also see B’s project on the sofa, the red granny squares… she disappeared out of the room as I took a few photos though!

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This was my little crochet corner… it definitely confirms that I’m a bit of a colour addict! Bright colours make me happy! You can see a bit of my mood blanket that I am woefully behind with – I actually think I am going to have to let the mood aspect go and just finish it off at random intervals. There are also some little african flowers for a new project I’m working on – as if I needed a new one – but it’s a surprise so I’ll share all in a couple of weeks 🙂

It was such a wonderful evening. I have been wishing for so long to find a knit & natter type group, and now we’ve formed one I am totally thrilled. Crochet, and craft in general, is so much better when it is accompanied by other people crocheting or crafting too. It is great to be able to provide and receive support, learn from each other and be inspired by other people’s projects and ideas.

The time absolutely whizzed by though and I think our husbands may have expected to see us a bit before half past 11 when we rolled in!!! I genuinely can’t remember the last time I was out of the house that late – especially without Vince. Ha! I lead such a wild life – and I love every minute 🙂

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This is R’s two finished and joined flower motifs. She was so in love with her flowers and I was so so happy to see another person totally fall for crochet! A gorgeous scarf is under way and another crochet addict is born!

Naomi x2