Learn To Knit

Skill Level: Intermediate

There are a million ways to knit leg warmers, and they are super easy. A leg or ankle warmer set is simply two matching tubes.

The difference between leg warmers and ankle warmers is length. As you can tell from the names; an ankle warmer fits over the ankle. A leg warmer goes further up the leg, typically to the knee.

Believe it or not, a pair of ankle warmers can save you hundreds of dollars! All the blood of your body pumps down through the legs, and then back up into the body returning to the heart. If you can keep your ankles warm, then your feet will be much warmer, and your blood will stay toasty in its constant journey. Wearing leg warmers will enable you to turn the thermostat down another notch and still stay warm!

Make yourself a pair of wrist warmers and you’ll be even warmer!

Ankle Warmers are super easy, but this pattern is listed as Intermediate because we use double knitting.

I have always wanted to try knitting two items at the same time, one inside the other, since I heard a story about a sheepherder who would knit away while tending the flocks. When done, she would pop one sock right out of the other one and have a pair!

I read the story in Beverly Royce’s,
Notes on Double Knitting.

My favorite projects with double knitting have been cute little Double-Knit Bears, which I wrote into a pattern years ago. When I decided I needed some new leg warmers for this winter, trying out double knitting on the set seemed like a great idea!

So here we go… double knit leg warmers.