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| My leg warmers patterns for Saint Valentine. |
I was going to post another ILI cowl that I knitted last week but I changed my mind and decided to make a couple of leg warmers designs for my Blythe ( it must be that, in the end, I like to work under pressure). I didn't have much time so they're quite simple.
Firstly I made a few measurements of Berta's calf so that I could use any stitch, and these are the results:
- Wider part of the calf: 14 mm diameter ~ 45 cm circumference.
- Ankle: 7 mm diameter ~ 22 mm circumference. I will round it to 25 mm for an easier fit.
- Length from ankle to just above the "calf muscle": 40 mm.
Now we need to choose between a cylinder and a truncated cone. That is, we can either crochet a rectangle- which would be the easiest option- and sew it or a trapezium for a more anatomical shape.
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| Basic shapes for the leg warmers. |
Let's see the rectangle option: once we choose the type of stitch, we need to crochet a gauge to calculate the number of stitches and rows required.
I crocheted two patterns, one in sc ribbing and the other one in hdc ribbing stitch.
For the sc ribbing rectangle I made a gauge of 5 cm X 2.5 cm with 0 or lace yarn and a 1.5 mm hook ( yes, I know I should have made a 10X10 gauge but it was going to take me ages, too lazy). It gave me 5 sts/cm and 25 rows for 4.5 cm, thus I had to crochet 21 chs for 20 sc and 25 rows.
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| How beautiful are the mini-hearts! |
As for the wider ribbing rectangle, I needed 22 chs for 20 hdc and 14 rows ( if I use a higher stitch I will need less rows to reach the 4.5 cm target).
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| Mini-hearts in different sizes. |
For another type of stitch I would have to make a gauge and calculate the number of stitches and rows required to crochet a rectangle with these specific measurements.
Should I like my leg warmers to be longer, I would add more stitches to my foundation chain accordingly to the desired length.
Oh! I have crocheted tiny hearts to celebrate Saint Valentine but they can also be flowers, bows, pom-poms, letters, equations...
I haven't had time to write down understandable patterns. When I write them for myself they have tons of my own abbreviations and they are a bit messy.
So would you do me a favour and tell me which one you like the most? I will post the most liked pattern next week, promiss.
Note: the trapezium pattern will have to wait because I have too many WIPs.
Happy Valentines!
That's all for today which is no small thing.
Catch you next weekend!
