Hello Knitters!

**Dixiecat** · 9th February 10, 09:53 AM

Love your tartan socks, sockknitter. Do you have a pattern that you use (that you can post)? I ask because of the cuff.

I'm teaching myself to knit socks and want to work up to tartan socks with a tartan cuff.

**Amble** · 4th March 10, 06:16 PM

I have been knitting for just under 50 years, and have knit numerous sweaters, scarves, socks and mittens. I have used wool, cotton, silk, bamboo, angora and synthetics. It's a fabulous hobby!
I recently purchased a book called "2-at-a-time Socks" by Melissa Morgan-Oakes (Storey Publishing 2007). This delightful hard-covered little book describes a way to knit a pair of socks on the same long circular needle so you have both completed when you are done. Loops in the circular needle keep the socks separate and allow each row of each sock to be done at the same time. This prevents the "curse" of "second-sock syndrome" in which the second sock is never finished. Also the socks end up the exact same length and tension.
This is a REVELATION to sock-knitters everywhere!
I am about to start my first pair of socks using this method. I wonder if anyone else has heard of this or done socks this way?
To me it sounds like the way to go!!!

**ali8780** · 5th March 10, 02:15 PM

Originally Posted by Amble

This delightful hard-covered little book describes a way to knit a pair of socks on the same long circular needle so you have both completed when you are done.

What a fantastic idea! I'd much rather get them both done at the same time, I don't think there's a worse feeling than realizing you have to do it all over again when you finish knitting something...

**Heming** · 7th February 10, 06:38 AM

Originally Posted by Pleater

Er - I have about 40 or 50 knitting machines (I know I know)

[thread jack]
Any of those for sale?
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:ootd:

**Pleater** · 7th February 10, 05:16 PM

Originally Posted by Heming

[thread jack]
Any of those for sale?
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:ootd:

Send me a PM and let me know what you are looking for. I am sure I can spare one.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

**Fit2BKilted** · 6th February 10, 10:29 PM

She's wonderful; and, as soon as it dries from the felting process, I'll be posting pix of me wearing my new Tam-o-shanter produced from an 18th-century pattern!

Next up: a pair of kilt hose... She's not made socks before; so, we may be relying on the experience of the community to get through it. :-D

**fluter** · 6th February 10, 10:41 PM

from central South Carolina

Perhaps we need a social group for knitters... I suspect most of us use ravelry.com as well. There's a congenial group on kilt hose/flashes there, moderated by our thistlelass.

Meanwhile, here is a link to a search result for "knit" in the thread title. That will give some food for thought!

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/s...archquery=knit

These are my faux-diced hose, also inspired by Mrs. Newsome:

**M. A. C. Newsome** · 7th February 10, 05:12 AM

Ken,

Those hose look great! I don't know why you'd call them "faux-diced." They are diced! And lovely ones at that.

My wife is currently working on a pair just like that in black and white for a client -- these are just like the black and white ones she originally made for me, only made from nicer yarn!

Did you use the Gainford pattern?

**Mac Ghille Sheathanaich** · 7th February 10, 05:51 AM

Greetings all, 7 February, 544amMST

Since a lot of you talented folks are gathered here in this thread, perhaps it is my opportunity to pop this question.

Do any of you take on kilt hose jobs for hire?
I have three big fat skeins of wool yarn to match my tweed kilt suit, ( pix of which I have posted up in "Traditional Highland Wear")

Neither my wife nor I knit, nor do either of us have the desire to learn to do so.
I make Argyll jackets and waistcots, and some kilts. I would rather try to be pretty good at a couple of things, than half-arsed at too many things.

So anyhowse, I have the yarn but no one to knit for me.

Fide et Fortitudine, aye!

T.

**M. A. C. Newsome** · 7th February 10, 07:20 AM

Originally Posted by Mac Ghille Sheathanaich

Greetings all, 7 February, 544amMST

Since a lot of you talented folks are gathered here in this thread, perhaps it is my opportunity to pop this question.

Do any of you take on kilt hose jobs for hire?
I have three big fat skeins of wool yarn to match my tweed kilt suit, ( pix of which I have posted up in "Traditional Highland Wear")

Neither my wife nor I knit, nor do either of us have the desire to learn to do so.
I make Argyll jackets and waistcots, and some kilts. I would rather try to be pretty good at a couple of things, than half-arsed at too many things.

So anyhowse, I have the yarn but no one to knit for me.

Fide et Fortitudine, aye!

T.

I mentioned your connundrum to my wife, since she's just now started to express an interest in knitting hose for others (in the past she has insisted that you had to marry her to get kilt hose -- lucky for me!). She started asking me questions about what type of yarn you had, what type of hose you wanted, etc., none of which I had the answers to, obviously.

If you'd like to discuss it directly with her, PM me and I'll send you her email address.

Here's an example of a pair she knit for me that I think would look great with your outfit. But she can talk with you about various patterns, etc.