My legs...

Under Wraps...

Finally warm...and stylishly perfect for under my winter skirts

(and pants for that matter)

I adore these so very much...and they were an easy project for me to complete in less than a week. You see, my mother made herself a pair of striped leg warmers before the holidays as a project to use up her leftover skeins of yarn. I immediately fell for them in a big way...

And, as we all know...
It's terribly awkward to have a crush on your mother's calves.

So, she totally inspired me to make my own (that, and a case of horrible jealousy, which found me constantly checking under whatever she was wearing to see if she had them on...sly glances each time she crossed her legs was making me look like a Peeping-Tom) and we all know that I have skeins of various yarn in a basket in the studio perfect for striping any project...but, going with my mother's experience when knitting these leg warmers, she said she'd much rather use self striping yarn...so, that is what I got, (saving the skeins for wool tanks...now that I'm more confident in reading patterns that is) And surprisingly? I sort of figured out the pattern the yarn made and was able to make them mostly match each other...

And these are what I came up with...and wore for a premier to Megan's house at our little dinner party last Saturday night, where I stopped conversation when I walked into the room...

OK, to be fair...I think it was because I'd just walked in, and everyone wanted to say hello. Megan's mother first noticed the leg warmers, and mistook them for knee socks...which we both agreed was really fun because they are different from the more traditional baggy 70's leg warmers...

And those colors?

swoon...

The fun kicky pattern?

swoon worthy yet again...




They match so many of my clothes (and shoes)...and they're going to be so much fun to wear...I'm going to have to think of excuses not to wear them every day...

Then again...

Why should I?

Oh...well...um...

Because I've already started another pair in a different set of colors and stripes?

And um...well...

Because I have another skein of yarn in the waiting...and am jonesing to go back to the yarn store for even more in this particular self striping pattern?

Oh, inspiration...

you are a tricky one indeed.