Booties!

I came to a realization the other night. My friend Kelly is pregnant and is due in early February. It's already January. She is having a baby shower a week from Sunday. I need to do something about a present. I usually knit something for people's baby showers, unless caught almost completely unprepared (like, I find out about it the day before). I've known about Kelly's shower for about a week or so, but it didn't really sink in until Thursday night at about 11:30. With a deadline of just over a week, I would normally try to whip out a pair of baby socks. I've given out a few of those in the last year and people seem to like them. However, I'm in school and free time isn't in great abundance, particularly during the week. So, socks, even baby socks, take more time than I have to devote to them right now. I then went on ravelry.com and did a search for patterns for baby booties, and limited the search by needle size (and picked a slightly larger size, as things knit more quickly that way). I found a pattern called Wave of Babies as a free download, which I started working on yesterday. I've completed one pair of booties in blue yarn and I'm just finishing the first of another pair in orange. It's a really quick knit, and they're very cute. I think I've found my solution to short deadline baby gifts.