Warm calves are a fall necessity

I finished another project! ...sadly it was not a long outstanding project but one that was newly begun. Behold...legwarmers!

To make these I glanced at this pattern but I really kind of winged it from there. I kept them the same length as suggested in the pattern and thought they were pretty much the right length...but I'm 5'11" so if you're making them you may watch the length. I also did not count my rows, instead I kept going until they looked wide enough to go around, which turned out to be 12" wide in the middle

In the end, because of the yarn I used, I think 12" may have been too wide. They don't want to stay up very well. I used Caron Simply Soft, it has a lot of give. I should have taken that into account. These work well with boots (that's my dog, Kipper, he's a helpful helper and a delightful model) and would probably work well over leggings or skinny jeans too.

The give in them is nice in that it allows them to be worn as thigh highs or folded over.

They look pretty cute with shoes too!

Here are some detail shot...minus my bad modeling!

I used:

Yarn: Caron Simply Soft in Grey Heather; 2 skeins (really 1 and a half)

Hook: size H/ 5.00MM. In hindsight I should have used size G, but what's done is done!

Sock yarn to table runner!

I wish I could say I was trucking along on all of my unfinished projects, but as usual I got sidetracked and haven't made all that much progress. Here's one that I've been working on for awhile that I did finally finish though!

I used this pattern, which is technically for coasters but I just hooked them all together and made it into a runner instead! (if you would like more instruction on how to hook them all together as you work I can tell you, I just didn't want to bog down the post if no one needed to know!)

I had become obsessed with this Red Heart sock yarn, and I HAD to have it. Socks don't work very well in crochet and I don't know how to knit really so I had to come up with another use for it. I think it turned out rather well. I still have quite a bit of the yarn left so I may also do some doily shapes that I can frame and hang around the breakfast nook...if I get it done while we still have a breakfast nook!

The green is a pretty good match (as you can kind of see) to the seat cushions that I also made for the nook.

I apologize for the semi-crappy pictures in this post, next time I'll get out the real camera rather than just my phone me=lazy, but you should have seen that coming by now!

Here's what I used:

Crochet Hook: Size E (3.50MM)

Yarn: Red Heart Heart & Sole in Green Envy. I've been working on this project so long I'm not sure how many balls I used but I'm thinking 3 or 4.