WIP Wednesday: Commissioned Legwarmers!

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 Welcome back to WIP Wednesday!  Today is a new cast-on, for a pair of custom commissioned legwarmers from the Necessity of Innovation Legwarmers pattern. 

When I started this commission, it became instantly clear that the pattern as written would have fit problems for my customer.  A bit of sluthing shows that well, I made this pattern back  before I really understood grading and sizing, so; this pattern is now on the to-do list for a serious upgrade to bring the larger sizes into something that will fit a lot better.  (More on that over the next couple of months - I've talked about it a bit more in-depth on my Patreon!).   So, resizing this pattern to make the commission work is a great proof-of-concept for what will become pretty close to a complete re-write!

(Don't worry, if you've already bought the pattern, I'll make sure you get the update when it comes out!)

Yarn is *Knit Picks Stroll Gradient in "FOMO", which is a sale colourway at the time of this recording that won't be returning.   Sad, because it's a very fun colour gradient; going from the bright blue you see on the needles, through the rainbow to a brilliant pink!  (The yarn description compares it to "a pack of highlighters" and that's pretty accurate to the colour - the colours in the picture are rather dull, once again, I'm photographing during a thunderstorm warning!) 

Needles are some inherited Aero straight needles that still have the UK sizing on them!  I originally tried these on 3 mm (US 2.5)  needles (which is what the pattern suggests),  but, since Superwash Wool has a tendency to grow  when washed, I ended up going to 2.75 mm (US 2) needles to make this work a little better. 

Stitch markers are probably pretty familiar to you folks if you've followed the blog - they're my *Sea Glass Stitch Markers from *WineMakersSister's Etsy shop.   They're marking the side of the repeat and help me guide where the increases in pattern go - and they're great for this, because they can't snag on the sock yarn, and they're big enough that they keep their place even with a yarn-over next to them!

Anyway, I'm really enjoying this so far.  Have you cast on anything new in the summer heat?  Sound off in the comments!