Gaiters that have become so popular in recentyears, combine two functions: practical and decorative. If the products are made of a thin thread and represent an openwork cloth, it looks incredibly elegant and original. At the same time, by tying warm gaiters crocheted, one can not worry about wind and frost.
Types of gaiters
Today there are several basic models of gaiters:
- Long warm, which wear "accordion" over the shoes.
- Long openwork or dense, which is worn under boots or boots, leaving the upper part to look out from the shaft.
- Short leggings, so-called cuffs for boots. They are designed to fill the space between the leg and the wide bootleg.
Almost any knitter can make crochet leggings. Schemes and descriptions of the simplest models are proposed in this article.
Cuffs for boots
These products are extremely simple to manufacture. In fact, it's just a short element of the circular canvas.
Before you start, think carefullyIts future image, which includes crocheted leggings. Schemes and descriptions make it possible to produce a dense or openwork product. However, the wrong choice of color or texture of yarn can negate all efforts. It is better to stop on a plain woolen thread of light shade (beige, gray, brown), it usually comes to any clothing. It is advisable to perform a control sample before starting work and see how many columns (rapports) are per 10 cm of canvas.
The simplest crocheted leggings, the schemes and description of which provide for only the crocheted stitches, are knitted as follows:
- Perform a chain of air loops. The number of loops should correspond to the figure obtained in the calculations (the leg girth is multiplied by the number of columns in ten centimeters and divided by ten).
- The first row is better to be tied with columns without a crochet.
- Perform the required number of rows of columns with a crochet.
- The upper edge is made using decorative strapping.
As for the decoration of gaiters, it is most often used modest single-row or double-row patterns.
Long leggings
For products that must cover shoes andfold "harmonica", you need to use thin and soft yarn. It is also necessary to choose the appropriate pattern. Interesting look leggings that are fixed on the foot. They are convenient to wear, since they do not deform when they put on a boot.
It can not be said that the work is very complex. In a few evenings, you can tie these leggings with a crochet (schematics and a description of the manufacturing algorithm are found further).
Begin work from the bottom, gain a chain from the EP and close it in the ring. All ranks will be circular:
- Knit the canvas with columns without crochet to a height of 3-5 cm.
- Perform half the bars, then tie a chain of EPs (their number should be equal to half the bars in the row) and continue circular knitting.
- At a height of 3 cm from the resulting "cut" should go to knitting a pre-selected openwork pattern.
- Having kneaded half the necessary height of the gaiters,should slightly extend the canvas. This is done by increasing the number of columns in the rapports or by inserting a wedge from the crocheted columns (it is placed on the back of the product).
Knowing how to tie crochet leggings, the craftsman can make several such sets to different shoes and clothes.
