From Pattern Notes:“

“An experiment gone awry turns into a fashionistas delight!

My mom always said that she couldn’t wear something that she’d already lived through. Corinne Waxberg isn’t a fashionista or a diva or even a clothes horse, but she makes a good point -- some trends die for a reason.

It was the 80s - ‘nuff said. When legwarmers reappeared a few years ago and teens were skulking around town with knitted acrylic sagging down around their ankles I thought maybe… not. I was soooooooo wrong! Thank god for marketers! Reinterpreted for the cocooned & hyper internalized new millennium, I saw colour peeping out from under pant legs, a brief, unexpected transition between cuff & shoe and I was in Love! And then it got cold outside – ever since then we’ve been inseparable.

This particular version of ankle sleeves were initially duds. They stretched, pilled, sagged and got gross. With nothing to lose, I threw them in the wash & felted them. Now, they are the funky-funk. In the fall I wear them with short socks, in the winter they give me extra insulation and extend the height of my boots. They stay put just as they are.

Knit in the round using simple ribbing, these are a delight.“