Leg Warmers (instructions)

My 7 year old wanted leg warmers.  She had some pretty specific requirements, some of which, I decided after some experimentation, were not attainable.  I also chose the yarn myself because part of the point of this project was leg warmers and part of the point was 'something to occupy my hands during meetings'.  Which became EVEN MORE IMPORTANT when suddenly all meetings were happening via Zoom.

Although in the end a lot of these were knitted during births, too.

This is the yarn I chose, from Wild Hand in Mt. Airy.  They were very helpful in figuring out what I wanted and then they wound it into a nifty ball for me.

This was a very improvisational 'pattern' with a lot of false starts before I hit on what I really wanted to do.  I used No 6 4.0mm bamboo double pointed needles.  I divided the yarn into two balls before I started so I wouldn't make one fabulous leg warmer and then run out before I made another one complete.

• Cast on 30 st and k2p2 in the round 20 rows.
• Switch to k only and knit in the round another 20 rows.
• Start adding 1st by knitting into the front of the stitch, and then into the back of the stitch before slipping the stitch, every other row. I just sort of varied where in the round I was doing this, so it's a bit random.  Add a total of 10 stitches, ending up with 40 st on the needles.  
• Keep knitting in the round until you feel like you are almost out of yarn or it's long enough for your child's leg.
• Switch to k2p2 in the round 20 rows.
• Cast off!

The results:

I made them extra long in the hopes that she'll be able to wear them for a few years.  She is thrilled!