Winsome?

When I finished sewing these, this word came to mind: winsome. I wasn't even sure what it meant, but upon looking it up, I felt it characterized these baby booties pretty well.

winsome: (adj) generally pleasing and engaging often because of a childlike charm and innocence

Okay, I don't know if these are innocent, but I do find them charming. And since my sister-in-law already had her baby, I decided I could cheat and post about them since I doubt she is following my blog while she's managing a two-year-old, a c-section, and a new baby.

They were challenging to make, but not too terrible (I rate my frustrations on the number of times I had to take out seams with my seam ripper--only once for this project). My favorite type of project is the one that I can do in a short period of time--a couple of hours or less.

I used this pattern, and there's also a fun collection of other people's baby shoe creations here.

I made these bibs combining two patterns--one from a book a borrowed from a very crafty friend and then combined it with this one. I could pretend and say that I combined the two because I just wasn't satisfied with either and had to make them better . . . but what actually happened is I messed up and was lazy to fix it so I switched patterns partway through.

The problem with crafty blogs is they make me see things that are so cute that I think I could make, but then I ask myself, "Do I really want to make that? Do I need that? Is it worth the time, effort, and expense to make it?"

I'm good at talking myself out of doing anything that requires work.