First knitted bootee

It's taken a little while, but I've finally finished my first knitted creation for Baby C – a little bootee (yes I know they normally come in pairs, but I've just not got that far yet!)

Knit in baby alpaca (buttermilk and duck egg) in the newborn size following a pattern from UK alpaca that I bought at the Knitting and Stitching show last year (the day after I found out about Baby C in fact). Having completed one I have to say two things: 1) Mine doesn't seem to resemble that in their pictures too much; and 2) it was a real pain to knit! Lots of changing of yarn, very fiddly picking up of stitches around the ankle that involved a mix of picking up from both horizontal and vertical edges. I'm now wondering whether to try and persevere and finish bootee number two, or whether to find a completely different pattern instead. I may look in some of my knitting books this evening for inspiration.

There's no doubt that the finished article is incredibly cute though and so small! Mr C and I were both stood there for ages just looking at it in wonder at how tiny it is.