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knit legwarmers
Finally blogging about an
old project, started on 11th Jan 2016 and completed on the 31st Jan, and gifted in Feb 2016. Legwarmers for my MIL. The third set I’ve knit for her – she finds my hand knit
ones much more warm and comfortable and obviously customized :-D
She had asked for blue and this was the best shade in the pure wool quality. I've suggested shaping the knees, but she prefers these.
The day I started knitting this, I thought I'd gone blind - the shade was too dark to work with. Very soon the eyes acclimatised.
Yet, the camera had a tough time getting a good fidelity.
Again, I combined 2 stitch patterns from Lesley Stanfield's The New Kinitting Stitch Library.
Stitch/Pattern #305
is the broader strip. Originally these strips were separated only with a couple of
purls. I inserted the narrow braid-like strip from #309.
This
came to a multiple of 14+2 stitch repeats [2 purl,7,2 purl,3].
Twist
Stitch is common to both. In the narrow braid, the twist alternates.
UK #12 needles for the
cuffs, and #10 for the body.
Jaypee
double knit Shade/lot: 044931. Around 5 balls (~250 gms) were consumed.
As you can see, I tried various backgrounds, locales, camera/flash settings to try and capture the pattern in the midnight blue colour. It can be quite frustrating.
The knitting journey was undeniably successful and I happily did the twist !!!
