My wooden chairs scratch my hardwood floor. Over the years I tried every "chair tip" product out there. About two years ago I found a free online pattern for crochet chair leg socks and made them from some acrylic I had lying around. Worked fine but they are wearing out, as the top photo shows.
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As I explored sock knitting I had the idea to knit socks for the chair legs using one of the elastic yarns. I got some Cascade Fixation from the LYS in pale yellow. The first eight I knitted, I did so flat in a K1P1 ribbing and seamed the piece into a tube then gathered one end tight. To say it is boring to knit one of these is the understatement of the year. I am knitting on sz 3 needles and it takes two hours to knit one of these. And I need 16!
Today I switched to knitting the sock in the round on two circulars. Probably a bit slower but I did hate doing the seam and since the sock had to stretch a lot over the fat part of the leg, it looked pretty bad.
If anybody wants to copy the idea, I knitted these using 20 stitches. To help them wear longer, I covered the tip of the chair leg with quilt batting. The constant scraping of wood against wood eventually wears through the yarn and I don't want to knit 16 of these pesty things again.
3 comments:
very clever, chair leg covers, and so handy...
Oh, they are just simply fabulous!!! BUT - - - now I want to see them WITH the little table. We, your bloggy fans, are just NEVER satisfied,
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