Irish Hiking Legwarmers

So I was running late for work this morning (gee, imagine that...), so I was unable to upload the photos I took of the legwarmers last night. Here is the pattern, and I promise to get photos up just as soon as they let me out of my cell block I get home from work. [By the way, It's not that I hate my job, it's that I really do work in a 'cell block'. All the offices in the SSC are these weird, interconnected little pod-things that look like cell blocks. OK, WAY off base. Back to the legwarmers].

(I love the way that I was so modest about posing in a skirt while trying to take the first photo. I failed charm school, what can I say!?!)

Materials:
(2) Balls Lion Brand Wool Ease Thick & Quick, Color Fisherman

(4) Size 11 dpns
Cable Needle (or a 5th dpn)

1/4 inch wide ribbon
darning needle

Size S/M [M/L]
*keep in mind these babies stretch, and you want them to be a bit tight so they stay up. The M/L is also a good 2 inches longer, but you can easily adjust the legnth in either size by adding or subtracting rounds at the end. The size I am modeling is a S/M*

CO 32 [36] stitches.
Divide amongst 3 needles, Place marker and join, careful not to twist.
(Make sure you keep the 1st group of K6 stitches and the 3rd group of K6 on the same needle, because these become cables and are easier to keep track of when they are on the same one)

S/M
Row 1: *p2, K6*
Rows 2-7: Repeat Row 1
Row 8: P2, C6F, P2, K6, P2, C6F, P2, K6
Repeat 6 more times, for 7 total repeats [56 rows]
Row 57: *p2, K6*
Row 58: *p2, K6*
Row 59: *p2, K6*
Row 60: *p2, K6*

Begin Ribbing
Row 61-71: *p2, K2*
Bind Off in Patt

M/L
Row 1: *P2, K6, P2, K8*
Rows 2-7: Repeat Row 1
Row 8: P2, C6F, P2, K8, P2, C6F, P2, K8
Repeat 7 more times, for 8 total repeats [64 rows]
Row 65: *P2, K6, P2, K8*
Row 66: *P2, K6, P2, K8*
Row 67: *P2, K6, P2, K8*
Row 68: *P2, K6, P2, K8*

Begin Ribbing
Row 69-79: *p2, K2*
Bind Off in Patt

FINISHING:
Weave in ends. Thread a darning needle with ribbon, and weave through legwarmer where pattern ends and ribbing begins. Start on the left side of one of the cable panels, and thread ribbon over the K-ribs, and under on the P-ribs [This will make SO much more sense when I post photos].

When you reach the same cable you started with (ribbon should be inside legwarmer), thread both ends of the ribbon through the needle and pull them through the middle of the cable. Tie into a bow [this can also be used to adjust tension to keep legwarmers up].