I guess I’m on the right track. I’ve started a pair of lacy leg warmers using a hand dyed dk weight yarn. It is a lovely lime green, if I had to name it I’d call it celery. Sorry, I can’t tell you where to get your own lovely celery yarn just like this because I bought it from the dyer ages ago and can’t even remember who it was. Where has my brain gone? Out the window with this heat!

Anyway, I had a partially finished leg warmer on my fake leg…(see below)… and a friend of a friend saw it and oogled and awed. “LEG WARMERS! I LOVE leg warmers. I wish I could wear them all the time!” Guess I’m on the right track for my fall fashion line. At least according to my market survey of one. 🙂

The lace pattern is a simple 4 row repeat and it is fairly simple to increase up the leg and stay in the pattern. As soon as I’m done with these, I plan on making it my first free pattern on this blog.

While knitting these I also realized how much I love knitting in the round on two circular needles. When I used to knit in the round on 4 or 5 double pointeds I always got ladders. No matter what I did to try to correct this, the ladders persisted. However, when I knit on two circulars, I get NO ladders. Woo Hoo. I highly recomend this for circular knitting. Once I got used to the ends of the circulars bobbing around my work it became a piece of cake. Better than those double pointeds always poking me in my palm.

You may have noticed that the only thing I write about is knitting, knitting, knitting. Well, what can I say? I do have a life outside of knitting but the needles are always with me. I’ve even bumped into a few tree branches lately while knitting a pair of socks and walking the dog at the dog park. Shoot, I think it may be too hot between now and who knows when to keep knitting outside. Oh well, if it is too hot too knit outside it must be too hot to walk the dog for her usual hour afternoon session…guess I’ll have to cut the walk short and go back to the air conditioning and knittng. Sorry Molly Brown. (see sad dog below)

Okay, she’s not really sad, just sleeping.