It is going to be almost a year I turned my private crochet hobby to a small business. I crochet to order, design and write the patterns, even making youtube videos. I learned a lot and the best thing is – I love it even more than last year.

I design and write down the patterns mainly in Czech and I know I slightly neglect my English readers and co-crocheters for what I need to deeply apologize but I am trying to work on the pattern translation as much as I could.

Today I would like to share my latest pattern for a simple balerina shoes. I made a video. In Czech though. But if you do not mind turning out the sound and follow a written instruction with an occasionall video peak I think you can easily manage.

I cross my fingers for you and please let me know if everything is understandable. Baby shoes, for me, were and are quite high level regarding to crocheting.

Useful tips:

• the size is for a baby from zero to two months, approximately 9 centimetres/3.5 inch of baby feet lenght
• to make it a little bit bigger, you need to make DC insted HDC in the first/second row

So let´s try:

Baby balerina shoes, 9 cm/3.5 in, 0-2 months (varies according to baby size)
Yarn: Himalaya Deluxe Bamboo white (124-01) and Kartopu Bambu pink (270). Both are bamboo yarn (100% bamboo or a combination with 50% viscosse), similar yarn here
Hook: 4 and 5 mm
Overseas alternatives: any yarn with this parameters – hook 3-4 mm/US 3-6, 100gr/3.53 oz. or 230m/251 yds per ball, yarn thickness 2 Fine Sport, Baby.
Ribbon and two small pearl buttons or wooden buttons
Marker or a piece of yarn
Time: 2-3 hours
Suitable for pre-intermediate

US terminology:
Sl St – slip stitch
CH – chain stitch
SC – single crochet
2SCtog – two single crochet together as one
2HDCtog – two half double crochet together as one
HDC – half double crochet

Each row starts with either 1 CH = Single Crochet or 1 loose CH = Half Double Crochet and ends with SlSt. This not apply if you use markers and crochet in circles. This pattern is written in columns that is the way the shoe is usulla crochetted. Also you start with a chain and continue around this chain.