Crocheting using a knitting pattern

 I borrowed Susan Anderson's cute book

Itty-Bitty Nursery from the library

and fell in love with her cute

pacifier clips.

I knew that there was no way that I could knit

them but I wondered if I could crochet them

using the pattern as a guide.
I chose the elephant because it's cute but
also because it is made up of simple shapes.
This is how it turned out.

I started by substituting a single crochet 
for the knit stitches.
This worked well and even the gauge
came out the same.
Then I tried a couple of ways to handle the
increases/decreases, none worked.
Each resulted in incorrect stitch counts.

So what I did instead was

I looked at the stitch count at the end of each row.

and made the number of increases/decreases

necessary to get the right number of stitches.

I then spread out the increases and decreases 

as evenly as possible in each row. 


Obviously if you are comfortable with 
knitting a small toy on DPNs then that's
the way to go.
But I'm not so I'm glad that,
at least as far as this pattern is concerned,
I was able to produce a decent crocheted clone!

Getting back into crochet

I haven't crocheted since March for a few reasons.....

vacation, family get togethers, hot, humid weather, gardening, 

and I've gotten back into reading every day.

(I just finished The Girl who played with Fire).

Great book! 

I'm looking forward to reading the 3rd one which, 

unfortunately, is also the last.

So I decided to start small by making these booties.

 I changed them up a bit by slanting

the strap to the side.

I'm fairly happy with them although 

the pattern has a mistake in it

and it took quite a while to get the correction.

I hope Sebastian likes them.