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.

[room2ndfloor]

I cannot figure out how to get the photos into the message. Silly me! I put them into an album in the gallery.

Feedback, please?

[SlackerDrummer]

I cannot figure out how to get the photos into the message. Silly me! I put them into an album in the gallery.

Feedback, please?

Under each photo in your gallery is a line of BBCode. Copy that and paste it into your post.

The hose look great.

[xman]

[room2ndfloor]

Thank you for putting the photos in here. The yarn is slippery, I'm telling you!

[Santa Kona]

WOW! They are very nice.

[T-Bone]

Very nice. I like the color. They look like they will be really comfy.

[sydnie7]

Those are lovely. My total sympathies with the slippery yarn -- I avoid those like the plague, create enough problems for myself without the yarn adding to it!

I think that is a simple enough cable to put with a patterned cuff. Might not marry the two if the cable was any more ornate (just my opinion, of course).

Waiting to see the finished product! I have two pairs that need re-work (one too long, one too short. . . next time should hit that Goldilocks point, right?) but am stalling by just knitting up some plain garters until I get up the ambition to start ripping out.

[Elf]

Ditto the approbation of the colour and especially the cable pattern. As for the patterned cuff, I would defer to the traditionalists about the wedding. However, for wearing on other occasions, I have often been gratified how bold ideas come out. If you don't mind tearing it all out, you might just go ahead and see how it looks. Then you will know rather than always wondering. Sorry if that is less than definitive. Good luck.

[room2ndfloor]

I don't know how anyone gets the length right if they knit from the leg down. I can only do it from the toe up, so that I can try it on and compare the two socks.