Free crochet leg warmers pattern — two tubes, 122 rounds written out
Crochet leg warmers free pattern for a pair about 32 cm around and 35 cm long, worked on a 4.5 mm hook in three colours over roughly nine hours. Nothing shapes either tube — 44 stitches on round 1 and 44 on round 61 — so all of the work goes into ten colour joins per warmer: cocoa for the first six rounds and the last six, oatmeal between, and four three-round rust bands starting at rounds 15, 26, 37 and 48. Both warmers are written out in full, 61 rounds each, every round stating the count it ends on.
Maths verified, not yet made. Every one of the 122 rounds was checked against the round before it by machine — the counts, the increases and the decreases all add up. What nobody can promise you yet is how it sits in the hand.How we check
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Why it is rated Easy
Easy: the stitch never changes, but 122 rounds and twenty colour joins take keeping in order, and a band worked a round out shows against the other leg.
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00What you need before you start
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What you need before you start
Yarn — three colours, all weight 4
2 skeins (~430 m / 200 g across the pair)Worsted / aran (CYC 4), wool or acrylic; something with a little spring holds the leg better than cotton
1 skein (~140 m / 65 g across the pair)Worsted / aran (CYC 4), same yarn and same brand as the oatmeal so the fabric stays even
1 skein (~140 m / 65 g across the pair)Worsted / aran (CYC 4), same yarn and same brand as the oatmeal
Tools
4 you probably own, 2 to buyYou likely have
Tapestry needle
Scissors
Locking stitch markers
Measuring tape
You need to buy
A second skein of the oatmeal — one will not cover both warmers
Row counter, or a notes app; sixty-one identical rounds are easy to lose your place in
Optional
1 cm wide elastic, ~50 cm, run through the top band if the warmers slide down
Blocking mat and rustproof pins, if you work in wool and want the bands to lie flat
Gauge and finished size
the last check before you cast onTension
Gauge is the whole of the fit here, and the tube never changes width, so there is no correcting it later. Work twenty rounds, hold the tube against the widest part of your calf, and change hook before you go on.
Finished size
~32 cm around and ~35 cm long — fits an average adult calf
How to make the leg warmers, piece by piece
Switching rewrites every round:US44 sc into the foundation ringUK44 dc into the foundation ringWork a US sc as a UK single crochet and the fabric comes out looser and taller.
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01The warmers
Both the same. A ring of 44 stitches, then sixty-one rounds straight…61 RNDS
starts in cocoa· picked up· Piece 1 of 2
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US termsscsingle crochetchchainrndroundst(s)stitch, or stitches
When this piece is doneSixty-one rounds is a long way, and the last one looks like the first. Trust the count on the screen over the look of the fabric.
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02Right warmer
— the same 61 rounds again, worked from piece 0161 RNDS
starts in cocoa· picked up· Piece 2 of 2· mirrors the warmers
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US termsscsingle crochetchchainrndroundst(s)stitch, or stitches
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Two pieces from one list. One list — the warmers — is written once and worked twice, identical round for round; the grey bars are piece length, all drawn to the same scale.122 ROUNDS IN ALL
Seven notes on the leg warmers
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01An original Crochet Genie design.
02The fabric is plain single crochet worked in a continuous spiral. It comes out smooth and even over the whole tube — there is no ribbing anywhere in this pattern, and no raised texture.
03Each warmer opens on a foundation ring of 44 rather than a magic ring, so the tube is at full width from round 1 and never needs increasing.
04Colour changes happen at the start of a round, so every join sits in one column. Put that column at the back of the leg.
05The tube runs straight at 44 stitches the whole way up, with no taper at the ankle.
06Single crochet gives very little across its width. Measure the widest part of your calf, and check the tube against it around round 20 — a hook a half size up or down is the easiest correction.
07Both warmers are worked identically. There is no left and no right until you put them on, and nothing is sewn to anything.
Four questions this pattern answers
Not questions anybody asked. Each one is written from this pattern's own record, and every answer is read off the fields it names.
How many pieces make up the leg warmers?
How much yarn will the leg warmers take?
What hook will the leg warmers need, and what is the finished size?
How long will the leg warmers take to crochet?
A round that will not add up?
Tell us the piece and the round number — the stepper already knows where you are.There is nowhere to send one yet.
Put the laptop down mid-round
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