Leg warmers, which have become so popular in recent years, combine two functions: practical and decorative. If the products are made of thin thread and are a delicate canvas, it looks incredibly elegant and original. However, crocheting warm leggings, you can not worry about the wind and frost.
Types of leggings
Today, there are several basic models of leggings:
- Long, warm, worn "accordion" over shoes.
- Long openwork or tight, which is worn under boots or boots, leaving the upper part peeking out of the shaft.
- Short leggings, the so-called cuffs for boots. They are designed to fill the space between the leg and the wide leg.
Almost any knitter can make leg warmers crochet. Schemes and descriptions of the simplest models are proposed in this article.
Boot Cuffs
These products are extremely easy to manufacture. In fact, it is just a short element of a circular canvas.
Before starting work, you should carefully consider your future image, including crocheted knitted leggings. Schemes and description allow you to make a dense or openwork product. However, the wrong choice of color or texture of yarn can negate all efforts. It is better to dwell on a plain woolen thread of a light shade (beige, gray, brown), it usually suits any clothes. It is advisable to perform a control sample before starting work and see how many columns (rapports) per 10 cm of canvas.
The simplest crochet leggings, schemes and description of which provide only double crochet, knit as follows:
- Perform a chain of air loops. The number of loops should correspond to the figure obtained in the calculations (leg circumference is multiplied by the number of columns in ten centimeters and divided by ten).
- The first row is better to knit with crochets.
- Perform the required number of rows with double crochets.
- The upper edge is made out using decorative strapping.
As for the decoration of the leggings, here most often used modest single-row or double-row patterns.
Of course, you can use more complex schemes.
Spatterdashes
For products that should cover shoes and fold “accordion”, you need to use thin and soft yarn. It is also necessary to choose the appropriate pattern. Interesting look leggings, fixed on the foot. They are comfortable to wear, as they do not deform when they put on a boot.
This is not to say that the work is very complex. For several evenings, you can crochet such leggings (the diagrams and description of the manufacturing algorithm can be found later).
They start work from below, type a chain of VPs and close it in a ring. All rows will be circular:
- Knit the fabric with columns without a crochet to a height of 3-5 cm.
- Perform half the columns, then knit a chain of VP (their number should be equal to half the columns in a row) and continue circular knitting.
- At a height of 3 cm from the resulting "cut" should go to knitting the previously selected openwork pattern.
- Having knitted half the necessary height of the leggings, you should slightly expand the canvas. This is done by increasing the number of columns in rapports or by introducing a wedge of double crocheted columns (it is placed on the back of the product).
Knowing how to crochet leggings, a craftswoman can make several such sets for different shoes and clothes.