A cute pair of mushroom or toadstool booties for your back-to-nature baby!

Yarn: The pictured pair was knit in aran weight (Yarn Bee Comfy Classic) but should also work well for worsted (possible even sport for a very small size). You will need red and white yarn - not sure of the exact yardage but under 50 yards of each.

Size: Pattern is one size and the size of the finished product will depend on your yarn and gauge. The finished foot length will equal roughly the same measurement as the width of 14 stitches in stockinette.

Needles: I recommend a set of 4 dpns, as for much of the pattern the rows are neatly divisible by 3. Otherwise, whatever needle works for your yarn and desired gauge.

Pattern:

Starting with red yarn, cast on 45 stitches divided across 3 needles. Place marker and join knitting.

Rows 1 and 2: Knit
Row 3: *k2tog, k13, repeat from * (42 stitches)
Rows 4 and 5: Knit
Row 6: *k2tog, k12, repeat from * (39 stitches)
Rows 6, 7, 8: Knit
Row 9: *k2tog, k11, repeat from * (36 stitches)
Rows 10, 11, 12: Knit
Row 13: *k2tog, k4, repeat from * (30 stitches)
Row 14: Knit
Row 15: *k2tog, k3, repeat from * (24 stitches)
Row 16: Purl
Rows 17, 18, 19: Work in k1, p1 ribbing

Cut red yarn and switch to white yarn. Leave a roughly 1 yard/meter tail of white yarn before the first stitch – you will use this later to embroider the dots.
Rows 20-29: Work in k1, p1 ribbing
Row 30: (k1, p1) for 8 stitches, k8.

At this point you are going to knit short rows for the instep. DO NOT wrap the short rows – you want to form a flap.
Rows 31-44 are the following two eight-stitch rows, repeated a total of 7 times:
Turn work, p8
Turn work, k8
Finish up row 44 by picking up and purling 8 stitches along the edge of the flap, then purling the remaining 8 stitches of the row, ending at the row marker.

Row 45: Purl 8, pick up and purl 8 stitches along the edge of the flap, purl 24 (40 stitches are now on the needles)
Rows 46-51: Purl
Row 52: k15, k2tog, k6, k2tog, k15 (38 stitches)
Row 53: k2, k2tog, k11, k2tog, k4, k2tog, k11, k2tog, k2 (34 stitches)
Row 54: Knit
Row 55: k1, k2tog, k11, k2tog, k2, k2tog, k11, k2tog, k1 (30 stitches)
Row 56: Knit
Row 57: k2tog, k11, k2tog, k2tog, k11, k2tog (26 stitches)
Divide stitches onto two needles and use Kitchener stitch to seam the sole shut.

To finish, fold the red cuff down, purl-side out, to form the mushroom cap. Use the tail of white yarn from the color-switch to embroider white dots on the red mushroom cap. Weave in all other ends.