Castellated hose pattern?

[cruiser348]

My mother-in-law has recently said she is looking for a new knitting project to undertake. She has been knitting socks so quickly lately that she doesn't seem to see the challenge in it anymore. I threw out the idea of some castellated kilt hose, and she said if I got a pattern for her to look over she would consider it. I've done a quick google search and came up empty handed. Hoping maybe some of the knitters among the rabble may know a more reliable source for specific knitting patterns. Any help is greatly appreciated.

[piperdbh]

I don't have a pattern, but if I were making castellating hose, I'd want 6 or 8 "castles" at the top of the sock, and would want them to be about an inch wide. Since I make my socks from the toe up, I'd work the sock until it reached the desired length, then knit an inch-wide section back and forth (in short rows) until it was about an inch long, then bind it off. I'd reattach the yarn to the live stitches, and bind off an inch-wide section, then work another 1X1" "castle", and bind it off, then reattach the yarn and so forth around the sock.
If your knitter makes her socks from the cuff down, she could make the "castles' on 3 separate DPNs, then join them together in the round using cast-on stitches between "castles", then make the sock according to her favorite method.

Clear as mud?

[cruiser348]

To me it is certainly like reading ancient greek, but I have a feeling it will make sense to her.

[room2ndfloor]

My mother-in-law has recently said she is looking for a new knitting project to undertake. She has been knitting socks so quickly lately that she doesn't seem to see the challenge in it anymore. I threw out the idea of some castellated kilt hose, and she said if I got a pattern for her to look over she would consider it. I've done a quick google search and came up empty handed. Hoping maybe some of the knitters among the rabble may know a more reliable source for specific knitting patterns. Any help is greatly appreciated.

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Designs for Knitting Kilt Hose & Knickerbocker Stockings, collected by Lady Veronica Gainford, available in the USA from Schoolhouse Press.

She has the photo on page 38, she calls it "evening kilt hose with pointed top", and the directions on page 6.

[cruiser348]

Perfect, found and ordered. Always nice to have a resource of talented folks when you are lost in and endless google mess.