For Sale: Baby Shoes, Never Worn

[soc_puppet]

The timeline:

Grandma asks me to make a quilt for a friend of hers who is having a baby

I explain patiently that I am not prepared to make quilts, small or otherwise; but I could crochet her something? Maybe a baby blanket?

Grandma compromises and asks me for two pairs of baby booties, one pink and one white

I look for a pattern I think would work; I find one

I pick up some yarn to use

I dither a little bit, because ADHD is ADHD, and Conditions are Not Right

I finally get to crocheting the booties

Hooray!

I have finished the crochet stage of three of the four booties

Mom: "You know those are too small, right?"

Me: "🤬"

I finish the booties anyway, and resolve to make the next pairs out of somewhat larger yarn; maybe one of Grandma's friends will have a preemie in the not too distant future.

So yeah, the booties aren't actually for sale, but even before I knew that they would be too small, the possibility was running through my head in conjunction with those exact six words that are this post's title.

Edit: Mom is sending off the completed booties so Grandma can tell us if they're too small; I'm currently off the hook (lol) for crocheting new ones, though I'm prepared if I end up needing to after all.

Comments

[yhlee]

Oh, sympathies - my mom (unasked for) would forever be sending us knitted jumpers and things for my daughter when seh was small, except they were always way too large or way too small during any weather it was cold enough for her to wear them without roasting. (We lived in Southern California at the time.)

[soc_puppet]

Oof, that's tough! And you can't exactly refuse a gift like that, either...

Meanwhile, we went to visit my brother's family this evening, and I brought my yarn with me to finish that last bootie. My sister-in-law, whom I really do like quite a lot, went on a tangent about how useless she thought baby shoes were, and it's not like babies get any use out of them. Meanwhile, I'm just sitting there thinking, Well, you might be right, but it's what Grandma wants, and I wouldn't exactly have picked pink for any of them if given a choice on the matter, either, so...