Tardis Legwarmers!

For Christmas this year I decided to crochet a pair of legwarmers patterned like a TARDIS for my friend who loves Dr. Who.  I was able to find several patterns for plushie TARDISes, knitted socks, a hat, even a David Tenant - but no crochet legwarmers.

I have never made legwarmers before, nor have I designed a pattern, so please forgive the flaws.  For instance, I assumed that legwarmers were supposed to be worked in the round, but then I actually looked at legwarmer patterns and found that most of them weren't.  Oh well.  One day I might go back and try to fix this, but for now, here it is:

TARDIS Legwarmers

I used a size H hook, Wool-Ease blue, Caron black, and TLC white.  Kind of a hodgepodge, I know.

Also, the friend I made them for has a very slight build, so you may want to scale up.  They are, unfortunately, not bigger on the inside than on the outside.

With blue, chain 36.

Row 1-5:  Sc around in the back loop of each st (all stitches are worked into the back loop unless otherwise specified.

Row 6-8:  Change to black.  Sc around in back loop.

Row 9:  Change back to blue.  Sc around.

Row 10-11:  Blue, white, white, blue. 

I'd also never changed color mid-row before, and there are probably tutorials online somewhere, but after quite a bit of trial and error I came up with:  With blue, pull up a loop.  With white, pull yarn through both loops.  Sc completed.  Sc white.  Pull up a loop, change to blue.  With blue, pull yarn through both loops.  Repeat around for 2 rows.

Row 12:  With blue, sc around

Row 13-14:  Repeat rows 10 & 11.

Row 15:  With blue, *5 sc, 1 dc (in front loop).  Repeat from * around.

Row 16-18:  Repeat row 15, adding one more white box one more white box, 3x3.

Row 19:  Repeat row 15.

Row 20:  *5sc in front loop, 1 dc in front loop.  Repeat from * around.

Repeat rows 15-20 three more times, skipping the white box.

Sc in back loops 3x around.  Of course I haven't lost count of the rows.  You can do math yourself, can't you?

Embroider "POLICE BOX" in white on the black stripe.

Now make another.

Congratulations!  You can now show off your Dr. Who fanaticism while keeping your legs nice and toasty.

I will try to link this to my Ravelry account (where I am known as "Haekelerin" - yes I know very original) as soon as I figure out how.

If you find any problems with the pattern just leave them in the comments.

Corchet! Yay!

So, this semester I'm working on killing off some of my GE's, meaning that I am taking several classes that are fairly easy and fairly boring.  And what do we do when we are bored in class? 

Crochet!

The above scarf was made with Red Heart Super Soft yarn in teal, using a size I hook.  Pattern:  ch 22, *dc in third ch from hook, hdc in same loop; skip one st, repeat from * to end, dc.  Ch. 2, turn.

This one was made from Bernat Mosaic Calypso (gotta love yarn names).  With size H hook, ch 251, sc across, rinse, repeat.  It's my first scarf worked lengthwise, and I liked it so much I started a similar one with a different color but the same type of yarn.

For the hat, I adapted this pattern to a size J hook and LionBrand Vanna's Choice (in Wildberry).  Ch 64 instead of 46, and work 10 rows of the rib pattern instead of 8.

Rainbow Triceratops Attack!

This is Trissie the Triceratops, who I crocheted over the summer.  She now resides in my dorm.

It seems to be a thing to post crochet patterns on blogs, but I didn't actually make this up.  I got it here, substituting gray for rainbow, and since I had no actual animal eyes, I scrounged up some buttons.  It actually works quite well.  Though I still can't figure out why the legs on the pattern critter are so much shorter than Trissies.  Oh well.