Date: 14 Jan 98 16:13:04 -0500 From: Karen Gott To: knit Subject: KNIT: FO, Late Christmas pattern, Extra FO!!! Leg warmers!! I did it! Actually I would have been happier if I had finished them last week as it was much colder then than it is now!! But my friends legs are again warm! She lost the first pair in last spring's flooding. I changed the pattern substantially from when I first designed it KAREN'S EXTRAVAGANT LEG WARMERS REVISITED Cast On by Cable Cast On, 42 stitches and rib in the round for several inches. Make an increase round. K1, Knit in the front and back of the next stitch, K1, knit in the front and back of the next stitch, around. (63) stitches Do a step up round of plain knit and switch to a 16" circular needle. Place your pattern at the side seam. I used a lattice lace stitch over 13 stitches this time with an 8 round repeat. I did 40 pattern repeats for leg warmer of about 6 feet in length. I bound off using the suspended bind off. A good explanation is found in the Reader's Digest book of Knitting (Thanks Gwen!!) I like to run thread elastic through the first few rounds of ribbing. I make the cuff long enough that it folds over. Say 6" or so. [...] Karen in Grand Forks, ND --- This pattern downloaded from Wool Works: the online knitting compendium http://www.woolworks.org/