Um, not this:
This was going to be a pair of striped legwarmers that used two different variegated yarns to created the effect of many colored stripes, something like this: 
(Image from Google; knitters, you recognize this, right?)
But the colors were just not working. I pride myself on my sense of color and I’m usually really confident in it–but when I get it wrong, it is pretty spectacularly wrong.
Ah well, by the time I finished it wouldn’t be legwarmer season anyway.