Still procrastinating on that sweater, but...

.... my daughter rides her little 50cc scooter to work and comes home
late at night when it's really cold, so I decided to knit her a pair of
legwarmers to wear on her way home (she wears skirts and hose to work)
so she doesn't freeze.

In my small stash of other people's cast-offs (pun not intended LOLOLOL)
I had two different DK-weight or sport-weight (not sure which) baby
yarns of different patterns of multicolored pastels, one with more white
and with a cord of sparkly looking something in it and the other with
more pastels , and I am double-stranding it and winging it making a set
of plus-sized legwarmers for her. I did ten rows of 2 x 1 ribbing and
then am doing this mock cable stitch that I found on knittingfool.com to
make them more interesting than just plain stst.

They are coming out so pretty, and work is slowing down already, so I
might get them done really soon, which would be good for my daughter.
It's not a Christmas present, so she already knows about them. She
asked me what I was knitting, and I said, "Legwarmers," and she said,
"Those aren't your colors," and I said, "No, they are your colors."

If I can talk my 15YO into helping me get a picture of it as a WIP on my
computer and get a decent picture that half does them justice, is there
some place I could post it to show you? I know the sewing group has a
Yahoo group where people can post pix they want to share. (No, I don't
have an account on R*velry and am not really planning on trying to get
one -- I don't generally do pictures and so the only picture anything I
know how to do is the photo section of Yahoogroups.)

Of course, they are so basic that you ladies might not think they are
much, but I just like looking at them so much to the point that even
cropping an image and using the texture as a screensaver for a while
would be fun.
--
Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your
work with excellence.

On Dec 15, 8:16 pm, Melinda Meahan - take out TRASH to reply
wrote:
... my daughter rides her little 50cc scooter to work and comes home
late at night when it's really cold, so I decided to knit her a pair of
legwarmers to wear on her way home (she wears skirts and hose to work)
so she doesn't freeze.

In my small stash of other people's cast-offs (pun not intended LOLOLOL)
I had two different DK-weight or sport-weight (not sure which) baby
yarns of different patterns of multicolored pastels, one with more white
and with a cord of sparkly looking something in it and the other with
more pastels , and I am double-stranding it and winging it making a set
of plus-sized legwarmers for her. I did ten rows of 2 x 1 ribbing and
then am doing this mock cable stitch that I found on knittingfool.com to
make them more interesting than just plain stst.

They are coming out so pretty, and work is slowing down already, so I
might get them done really soon, which would be good for my daughter.
It's not a Christmas present, so she already knows about them. She
asked me what I was knitting, and I said, "Legwarmers," and she said,
"Those aren't your colors," and I said, "No, they are your colors."

If I can talk my 15YO into helping me get a picture of it as a WIP on my
computer and get a decent picture that half does them justice, is there
some place I could post it to show you? I know the sewing group has a
Yahoo group where people can post pix they want to share. (No, I don't
have an account on R*velry and am not really planning on trying to get
one -- I don't generally do pictures and so the only picture anything I
know how to do is the photo section of Yahoogroups.)

Of course, they are so basic that you ladies might not think they are
much, but I just like looking at them so much to the point that even
cropping an image and using the texture as a screensaver for a while
would be fun.

Basic, they may be, but I'd be willing to bet that they are gorgeous!

Higs,
Katherine