Kilt Hose

[usonian]

Last October I started knitting a pair of kilt hose using Aislinn Charlton-Dennis' free "Toirneach Kilt Hose" pattern. After half a dozen false starts on the decorative cuff pattern, I gave up and went with a simple K2, P2 ribbing instead... then I got distracted by other things until a few weeks ago, when I picked them up and got going again. I'm pretty happy with them as a first effort:



My timing was just about perfect; I was finishing the socks just as the new USA Kilts casual I bought for hiking arrived, and I was able to inaugurate both today.



This was only the second pair of socks I've made (the first were a regular length) and once you see how the heel and gusset work, they're really not hard... in the case of kilt hose, they just take a lot of time because they're so long.

The yarn I used was Lion Brand Wool-Ease, in the "Chestnut Heather" colorway. It's a blend, 80% acrylic and 20% wool, machine washable. I'd say I used about 2 1/2 skeins of yarn.