Kilt Hose Progress

[room2ndfloor]

I will appreciate your feedback. Thank you for helping me.

The yarn is a premium German sock yarn, about 50% silk and 50% wool. Slippery!

I have one stocking made from the toes up to 14" from the floor, and the other through the ankle shaping. He's got a big calf. The pattern has ribs that draw the stocking close to the leg, with increases in the center of the back.

I need to make a decision soon about a cuff.

I am thinking of putting in a cuff with a small checked pattern in the blue, green, and soft red with a few black lines in between. I modified a cuff pattern from Lady Gainsford's book, "Kilt Hose and Knickerbocker Stockings."

These colors go well with his Armstrong Ancient tartan.

Is it some kind of heresy to use a color patterned cuff on a cable patterned stocking?

These will be his hose for a semi-formal late afternoon wedding.