Travel The World Crochet Baby Sneakers – Free Pattern

This is a crochet pattern for my easy beginner-friendly baby sneakers – Travel The World. Find out what inspired me to design this pattern, what yarn did I choose, and learn all the tricks on how to create perfect baby sandals.

You can find the free instruction below. If you want to support my work or need more sizes, purchase the ad-free, printable PDF here.

 In my last YouTube video tutorial, I asked you guys what would you like to see next and what are the topics you are interested in. I got so many great answers and ideas for future projects from your comments. One of the answers that were constantly repeating was if I can create a pattern for crochet baby booties for little boys. And that was exactly what I did.

I dug some blue and gray yarn in my yarn stash and started working on a new design. My goal was, to create simple baby shoes suitable for boys and girls. Nothing fancy, no flowers, no bows or colorful buttons. The solution was super easy … crochet baby sneakers.

The pattern is made of 4 steps: sole, tongue, heel, and shoelaces. Not all of them are part of the same tutorial. As some of you might now (If you are new to my blog, hello! I am so happy you are here! 🙂 ), filming and editing a video took a lot of my time (sometimes more than a week), so I’ve decided to create a separate video tutorial and blog post for crochet baby sole and I will reference all the patterns for baby shoes that will come in the future to this post and video tutorial.

Believe me or not, that will save me a lot of time and trouble, plus the videos will be a lot shorter. That means that I will need less time to edit and upload. Yey! And the pattern for the sole will be always the same. After a while, you won’t need to jump to that post/video and back again anymore because you will remember it and you will be always prepared for new baby bootie video tutorials. Simple as that. 🙂

Video Tutorial

Materials

Here is what you will need for this project (These links are affiliate links. Purchasing through these links earns me a small commission at no extra cost to you. So if you decide to purchase through them, know that you are awesome! Thanks! 🙂)

• YARN: For this pattern, I was using some 100% cotton DK weight yarn in gray and blue. You can use any color you prefer.  I was using gray for the sole, first round of the upper part and shoelaces and light blue for the rest of the shoe. (here!)
• CROCHET HOOK: You will need one size only. That’s 3.5 mm or E/4 crochet hook. I am using my aluminum crochet hook with a plastic handle. I have no idea where did I buy this hook But I will try to find something similar. (here!)
• YOU WILL ALSO NEED: Scissors (here!), yarn needle (here!) and 2 stitch markers (here!)

Stitches and Abbreviations

• st/sts – stitch/stitches
• ch – chain
• sc – single crochet
• hdc – half double crochet
• dc – double crochet
• ss – slip stitch
• BPhdc – back post half double crochet

Pattern Notes

• Sizes: newborn (0 – 6 months) (below), 6 – 12 months (in the PDF pattern only – here)

• How to read a pattern: You can learn how to read a crochet pattern here.

• The pattern is written in US crochet terms.

• Skill level: Easy/Medium

• Measurements: length of the sole 0 – 6 months – 9 ,5 cm (3.75 inches), 6 – 12 months – 11,5 cm (4.5 inches).

PDF Patterns

The PDF crochet pattern is a great solution for those who prefer to work offline, need additional sizes of the pattern or just want to support my work. This beautifully designed PDF pattern can be found in shops on Etsy, Ravelry, and Love Crafts.

* This PDF instructions include a bunch of additional sizes. The fee compensates for the ad revenue I would make if you had to visit the site to access the instructions.

Instructions

Crochet Baby Booties FREE Tutorial – Travel The World

I have broken these instructions into a few smaller sections. We will start off by making a crochet sole; you will need two, for each shoe one.

Then we will continue with the upper part which will be done in three simple steps: upper part, tongue, and heel. The last step is shoelaces made of a long crochet chain. left and right shoe are identical, so when you finish the first one, repeat all the steps for the second one and you are done.

SOLE

Take your DK weight yarn in a gray color and 3.5 mm crochet hook and crochet a foundation chain of 10.

Round 1: Start in the 2nd chain from the hook. Make 2 hdc into the same chain. Hdc 7. Make 6 hdc into the last chain from the hook, now start on the opposite side of the foundation chain. Hdc 7. Make 2 hdc into the last one. Join the round with ss. = 24 sts.

Round 2: Ch 1. Start in the same stitch. Make 2 hdc into the next 2. Hdc 7 sts. Make 2 hdc into the next 6 sts. Hdc into next 7 sts. Now make 2 hdc into the last 2 sts. Join the round with ss. = 34 sts.

Round 3: Ch 1. Start in the same st. Repeat {2 hdc into the same st, 1 hdc into the next one} 2 times. Hdc into next 7 sts. Repeat {2 hdc into the same st, 1 hdc into the next one} 6 times. Hdc into next 7 sts. Repeat {2 hdc into the same st, 1 hdc into the next one} 2 times. Join the round with ss. Do not cut the yarn! = 44 sts.

UPPER PART

The first round of the upper part of the shoe is worked with the hook going around each stitch all the way around. The nicer side of the sole should be always on the outer side of the shoe. Continue working with gray yarn and 3.5 mm crochet hook. Make sure your first st is in the middle of the heel. If not. Cut the yarn and start in the middle of the heel.

Round 1: Ch 1. Start in the same stitch. Work 1 BPhdc into the next 44 sts. Join the round with a ss. = 44 sts.

Change the color.

TONGUE

Take two markers and mark 20 stitches in the front middle part of the shoe. Work in rows. Turn after each row.

Row 1: Work into back loops only! Join the yarn into one of two marked sts. Start in the same stitch. Work 1 hdc into the next 20 sts. Ch 1. Turn. = 20 sts.

Row 2: Work 1 sc into the first 4 sts. Skip 2. Dc 8. Skip 2. Work 1 sc into next 4. Ch 1. Turn.

Row 3: 1 sc into next 2 sts. Skip 2. 1 dc into the next 8. Skip 2. Work 1 sc into the last 2 sts. Ch 1. Turn.

Row 4: Skip first 2. Work 1 dc into the next 8 sts. Skip 1 and work ss into the last one. Ch 2. Turn.

Row 5: Work 1 dc into the next 9 sts. Ch 1. Turn.

Row 6: 1 sc into the first one. Work 1 hdc into the next 7 sts. Work 1 ss into the last one.

Fasten off.

BACKSIDE

Mark 28 sts on the heel. That will cover 2 sts of the toe part on both sides of the shoe. Place markers. Start in any of marked sts.

Row 1: Work first 2 sc sts into the FLO. Work 1 sc into the next 24. Work 1 sc into the last 2 sts into FLO.

Row 2: Chain 1 count as a stitch here! Slip next one and work 1 hdc into the next 24 (28) sts. Skip 1. Work 1 hdc into the last one. Ch 1. Turn.

Row 3: Work 1 sc into the next 26 sts. Ch 1. Turn.

Row 4: Chain 1 count as a stitch here! Skip the first two and work 1 hdc into the next 22 sts. Skip 1. Work 1 hdc into the last one. Ch 1. Turn.

Row 5: Work 1 sc into the next 24 (28) sts.

Fasten off.

SHOELACES

Chain 85. Make a small knot on both sides of the chain. Put a shoe in front of you with the toe facing away from you. Starting from the two frontmost opposite facing holes, insert each end of the shoelace from the inside.

Make sure both sides of the remaining laces are equal. Working in a diagonal direction, insert the right end of the shoelace into the next left hole (from the top).

Now insert the left end of the shoelace into the next right hole. Make a bow.

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The pattern was updated: July 2020.