Legwarmers!!

They are here at last! The lovely leg warmers I promised.
They were made with double pointed needles and worked in the round, the two I've made are the inverse of each other and where I have started with one colour on one of the leg warmers, I started with the other colour on the other legwarmer. But this pattern is written for a lovely matching pair!

Each leg warmer is 15 inches long. My tension square was 3 3/4 (three and three quarter) inches by 3 3/4 inches, with 20 stitches and 17 rows, kitted in single rib, with DK wool and 3.75mm needles.

The pattern can always be adjusted to suit different sizes, by increasing or decreasing the number of stitches can adjust the size of the legwarmer, and by adding more or less rows can change the length.

The legwarmers themselves are kitted in single rib with DK yarn.
The pattern alternates different coloured yarns, but you can ignore the change of colour and knit a set of legwarmers in one colour, or use a variegated yarn.

Repeat the pattern twice to make two legwarmers.

Needles: 
A = 4 x 3.75mm double pointed needles.
B = 4 x 4mm double pointed needles.
Yarn A - this is the colour you start with.
Yarn B - the second colour you have chosen.

Pattern:
Cast on 60sts on 3 needles (20sts on each needle) with needles A and yarn A.

Place a stitch marker between the first and second stitches, this will indicate when to change colour later on.

Row 1: With the fourth needle and yarn A: (k1, p1) to end of round.

** To begin with you will have three needles in a line, to begin the first row, with the fourth needle, knit with the first needle in your left hand, make sure you pull this stitch tight, and then the three needles will have formed a circle. Having the stitch marker between the first stitch you knit and the second one will help when changing colour.

Row 2: (k1, p1) to the end of the round.

Row 3: k1, change to yarn B, (p1,k1) to the end of the round.

Row 4: (k1,p1) to end of round.

Repeat rows 3 and 4, changing the yarn colour every two rows. (The coloured stripes should be two rows thick, but the very first stripe will be thicker as you have cast on.)

Continue until the work measures 2 inches long, then change to needles B.

Continue with needles B until the work measures 13 inches and change back to needles A for another 2 inches.

Cast off.

Go Vote

Today I voted, did you?

The May local elections are small, but they are important.
When someone has fought for my right to vote, I feel like I should use it.
It's the same for everyone, today is the day for going out and deciding who is worth your vote. There are a huge number of people who don't think their vote will count. Collectively all those people will make a huge amount of difference. If we want a country that is run in a way that represents the people in it, EVERYONE needs to vote.

But today wasn't the big election. The big one is on the 8th on June, so make sure you get registered, get the info, and get down to that polling station and have your say.

No one else is going to do it for you.
Make sure you register by the 22nd of May to vote in the 8th June elections!
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In other news, I've been playing around with my Bullet Journal and found a daily spread that I really like! There isn't much doodling and drawing like on some I've seen, (Which are pretty amazing).
This one is fairly simple, with a space for events happening in the day, tasks I need to complete, the weather and what I ate. There is also a large amount of space for notes during the day!

Apart from my journalling I have been working away on some of my makery projects, so hopefully soon there will be some stuff arriving!