Knitting needles question.

[Evapche]

I want to make a pair of baby booties. The pattern is in newborn size and I want to make it in 3month size and wonder how many needles up should I go? It says to make it on 3mm. I'm doing it on US 3 dpns.

http://keditalksbirth.wordpress.com/2011/04/06/hooties/

I also have a pattern for a 9-12 month vest and want to bring it down to 3 month and wondering how many needles I should go down?

http://caffeinatedyarn.blogspot.com/...baby-vest.html

[Ingrid]

I think for the vest, you'd be better off reducing the number of stitches on the sides rather than trying to get it that much smaller through needle size for a 3-month old. It has 110 stitches around, with 5 stitches per inch, so about 22 inches.

Check out the measurements of a 3-month vest and subtract stitches according to the measurements of that one, by 5 stitches per inch.

As for the booties, I can't imagine that newborn size is all that much smaller than 3-month size. I wouldn't go up much more than one needle size with the same thickness yarn or they'd probably be too floppy. You could make the ankle bands longer.