DIY Kilt Hose

[pdcorlis]

My goodness - what would the boys on the highschool football team say about us know... sewing pleats? knitting socks? That's what I call a real man!

I plan on taking up the needles this winter - thank you one and all for the inspiration!

[cacunn]

Hi, Cacunn.

Your instructions make a standard cable, which I learned when I made a hat that came out too small. I'm wondering about the braids shown in the John Anderson pattern - his pattern describes a regular cable, but the pictures show a braid.

Other thing I've learned (the hard way) is make a gauge swatch!!

Pleater describes a method that I'll try tonight. It's Knit Night at the local yarn shop, so I get to sit back and enjoy no-stress knitting and socializing. Yea!!

boB

This is above my pay grade in knitting. Maybe Arlen lovely lady will offer some help. However, it appears that John Anderson is just doing a cable knit with 4 strands. To visualize what what needs to be done take four pieces of yarn and do some braiding.

It appears to be a three stitch cable. **My approach would be to move the first three stitches (1,2,3) to a cable needle and let drop to the back. Knit the next three stitches (4,5,6) as normal cable. Pickup the three stitches from the cable needle (1,2,3). Move to the next three stitches (7,8,9) move to a cable needle drop to back. Knit the next three stitches (10,11,12) then pickup stitches (7,8,9) and knit them. Continue to knit until you get back to the cable area.
Repeat from **.

I have not knit many cables but I think this will be a start.

Lets know how your knitting class goes.

[Moosedog]

I am fortunate to have a mother who is a master knitter and who makes hose for me. Here are two examples--just basic ribbed but custom colors. Not a great photo but you get the idea. They look quite different in size but that's due to the different stretch--they both fit me well.

On her last visit we picked out some new patterns and yarn so perhaps there will be some under my tree this year. We also plan to experiment with some shorter hose in a nice color/texture that I can scrunch down. Think aran but in colors.

Moosedog

[auld argonian]

Hey! Found a page that may help some of us...

http://www.knittinghelp.com/videos/advanced-techniques


...with video's yet!

Best

AA

[auld argonian]

Not to be the eternal knitting guy...but I just called a local shop about the Addi Cable Needles and found out that the owner is giving a sock knitting class the first three Tuesday evenings in December...if you're Chicago South Side, South or West Suburbs and are interested, PM me. It'd be hilarious to have several guys showing up to learn kilt hose knitting together!

Best

AA

[Pleater]

Ah yes - a cable is narrower than plain knitting - usually when making a garment you'd make a standard size rib for the bottom or cuff, and then increase a couple of stitches to allow for the loss of width in the area of each cable.

You can make cables which are the full width of the garment, or all around the leg of a sock, and there are many variations where the result can be more like a mad macrame artist at work than a sedate and traditional item of clothing.

To make a braided cable on six stitches each pair, left, centre, right, always move together.

The number of rows between twists depends on the thickness of the yarn and the size of the needles, but when knitting in the round you can do odd numbers of rows between twist, but in flat knitting it is usual to do an even number, so you are always twisting on a knit row.

The sequence of twists would be - or could be, you could start at the left, but starting at the right,

Right pair over centre pair, then knit some plain rows.
Centre pair behind left pair, then knit some plain rows.
Repeat for required length.

[starbkjrus]

I do not knit but I am having Diane, Arlen's fiance knit up some argyll hose for me she has a pattern available here

FINALLY remembered to bookmark this site.

I'm still learning to knit. As Glen has pointed out, my fiance is the fancy knitter in our relationship and she makes me nice hose.
That said, I am assured that any true Scotsman can 'Click it' and make his own hose.
So I am working on it very hard.

Yeah Arlen, she's right. Just "Click it" ........wait for it........








On the web! If I tried to "Click" knitting needles I'd have to buy stock in bandages.

[Archangel]

Ha, this is so funny, all the macho kilties knitting away and sharing techniques.

Reminds me of my first real job. As a teenager I got to work at the army maintenance base. Because of cuts and transfers, the only full time people were ones with special seniority: combat vets, wounded and pows. I worked on a machine gun mod project with the local bomb disposal expert (before it got more high tech). What did they talk about? They mainly talked about growing the best strawberries.

When I had been there a bit longer, then they would tell me about what that guy over there did (horrible burns "First guy out of the tank" "Only guy out of the tank."). They never talked about themselves, unless it was something silly ("I was sent to look over a rail embankment to see what was on the other side. When I got to the top, there was a young German soldier doing the same thing. The whole German army was there with him, so we had to surrender." Big laugh.)

Carry on.

[timber]

Hi, Timber.

I'm considering that pattern as my first-ever pair of socks/hose. What do you think? Too challenging? I've heard that a top-down pattern is a bit easier. (So far I've done three scarves and a hat with cables, knit in-the-round. But I like to really challenge myself, and I usually win in the first couple of tries.)


I have a question about the cable/braid pattern. The way it's called out, it seems that it's just a standard (simple) cable:

FC4: Front cross. Slip 2 sts to cable needle and hold at front of work,
K next 2 sts, K2 from cable needle.

BC4: Back cross. Slip 2 sts to cable needle, hold at back, K next 2 sts, K2
sts from cable needle.

I don't understand how that results in the braid (fancy cable) that's shown in the pics. What am I missing?

The braid runs over 8 stitches. First you cross one way with the center 4 stitches, then the other way twice across all 8.

[Mark Keeney]

OK it took a while to get pictures but here are the ones I knitted.

Another view

This pattern was adapted from the Folkwear #152 instructions. This is the first thing I have knitted other than an afghan that was square.