Do you have any idea how difficult it is to find nice kilt socks? Impossible, that's how difficult. You can buy generic synthetic-y pseudo cabled jobbies and that's it. Nothing like good enough for my love on our wedding day. There are a few kilt sock patterns floating around
the internet (rav link). They're pretty much exclusively overwrought with "celtic" cables and not Dan's taste at all. I wanted modern and colourful.
Toirneach kilt hose by Aislinn L. Charlton-Dennis featured a nice plain wide rib on the leg and a rather elegant series of decreases to create a seam along the back - I thought that feature in particular would show off Dan's legs. The pattern is for worsted weight wool though, of which a) Dan would melt in and b) Starmore's 3 ply equivalent doesn't come in such an array of colours as the Hebridean 2 ply. I got in few colour choices and when Dan's kilt arrived we picked the one that went best. Then I measured, swatched, made a few calculations and came up with these:
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| You can just about see the detailing on the back of the socks in this shot. Photo by Laura Babb |
This bit of knitwear is still around too, so I got to take a few detail shots just because:
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| And when your love dances the night away in his wedding boots, you can expect to find that his socks have felted a little around the ankle come morning. |
I love these! they look perfect with the kilt. It's antlers at the back of them right?
ReplyDeleteyup! I was very proud of the antler motif I came up with :)
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