How to Make Baby Booties

Purchase felt material and embroidery thread. Visit a good fabric store to purchase these items. The two colors you choose for the felt may either be in matching or contrasting colors. For example, you might consider light pink and dark pink or light blue and dark blue.
The size of one colored piece of felt required for the booties should be approximately 1 1/2 sq. feet. This felt will be needed for the upper part of the booties and soles. The other colored piece of felt may be ½ sq. foot in size. Small shapes will be cut from this to decorate the booties.

Create the sole and basic pattern. Take the 1½ sq. foot piece of felt and pencil mark the outline of your baby's foot on it. Mark an extra ½ inch all around the foot traced.
Now cut along the outer line marked. You'll need to cut two such pieces, which will be the soles of the baby booties. The narrower part of each indicates the heel area; the wider part indicates the toe area.

Design the upper part of the booties. Measure the perimeter of the sole using a string. Add approximately ½ inch to your measurements, and then cut the string.
Place the string on a white sheet of paper. Curve it to form a U shape and then trace it. Measure 1 ½ inch inward from both ascenders (outer top ends) of the U and then sketch another (inner) U. The curved part of the overall U shape will be the toe area.
To make the tongue, mark 2 inches long by ¾ inch wide upward from the center of the inner U curve. Now trace the overall U shape (including the tongue) onto the remaining part of the felt used to cut the soles earlier. Then make two cuttings of this shape. You will now have two upper parts of your bootie pattern.

Decorate your booties. Take the other ½-inch piece of (matching or contrasting) felt. Then cut whatever simple shapes or symbols you desire. Those suited for babies will be ideal. Now stitch the shapes cut out to the upper part of the bootie, wherever appropriate.

Join the upper part of the bootie to the sole. Starting from the toe area, pin the sole to the upper part of the bootie all around up to the heel seam (joint). The entire seam of the bootie must face outward.

Stitch the sole to the upper part of the bootie, including the heel seam using the blanket stitch. Now fold the tongue over to form a loop and then stitch it in place. You can now use blanket stitches to decorate all raw (unfinished) edges.

Make the fastener. Cut two felt strips, each of 3 inches length by ½ inch wide. Then blanket stitch the edges of each strip. Now stitch the finished strip to the side of the bootie facing inward and then pass the strip through the loop of the tongue.
You can now stitch a strip of Velcro to the shoe and the fastener, where appropriate.
Your baby booties are now ready.