How do you store your kilt hose?

**matchlock** · 19th May 18, 01:54 AM

Kilt hose, Lay on each other, then loose overhand knot.
Keeps them together well and won't stretch out the top.

I'm not picky enough to have those beautifully filed sock stacks. Normal use I buy a bunch of exact same dress socks, black blue kaki, don't ever have to worry about pairs or mates until they start wearing out.

**Friday** · 19th May 18, 08:03 AM

I come at this from a slightly different direction since I knit my own kilt hose. For me storing also means displaying my hand knit hose. I am not a great knitter but after all that work your are going to have to look at them even if you do not want to.

After washing I allow my hose to dry flat on a towel until damp dry. I then take a piece of plastic mesh, used as a form for yarn tapestry, to hold the hose open to dry. These come in 12x12 inch (31 x 31 cm) sheets. I roll the sheets in to tiche tube and slide them down the leg of the hose to the ankle. Once released the sheets unroll until they fill the leg of the hose. often a second one is need at the top of the leg. Both hose are hooked to clips on a pants hanger. It is not uncommon for a couple of pair of hose to be drying ant any one time.

My desire is to make some sock blocker for size 12.5 (US) feet and 18 inch calves. I am looking at using gauge 1 or 2 ( about 1/4 inch or 7 mm thick) copper wire to create a blocking form. I am concerned about the flexibility of copper even at this thickness. Not during creation but how easily it will deform when putting hose on and off. Als, how to coat the copper to prevent tarnish/corrosion from staining the hose. If I can work this out I think the copper sticking out of the top of the hose could add to the display of my knitting.

**Grizzled Ian** · 22nd May 18, 09:39 AM

I start with my hose turned inside out, from when I take them off to wash them. Once they are dry, I turn the 'foot' of each sock the right way through, so the 'foot' is inside the 'shin'. I do this for two reasons, so that I can stick my foot straight into the 'foot' of the sock when I put it on, and secondly, each is shortened by roughly a third as I continue the folding process.

Next I lay the 'foot' of one sock longways over the other. Then I fold the top of one sock back over both the 'feet', and peel back the top of the other sock down over the complete pair of hose, as is described in the OP. I don't believe there is any great risk of stretching the sock top, because it is quite a bit narrower than either of my shins. In any case, for each pair it's only one sock top at a time that might stretch.

To store my hose, I stand them up in a 10"/25cm plastic tub which I know will take about 24 pairs.

The sock origami is a neat idea, I like it, but - I also like to have my short jeans socks turned in ready to go like my hose.

**Tobus** · 25th May 18, 04:53 AM

Originally Posted by Grizzled Ian

To store my hose, I stand them up in a 10"/25cm plastic tub which I know will take about 24 pairs.

I just have to tip my hat to anyone who actually has 24 pairs of kilt hose.

**Grizzled Ian** · 25th May 18, 06:24 AM

Hi Tobus,

I don't want to be caught short.

**PatrickHughes123** · 30th May 18, 05:08 PM

To be honest, I don't know. I've only been wearing the kilt for a year. I store them by folding each hoe in half, putting one on top of the other and putting it in a drawer. I only have one pair of hoes, plain white.

**MacCathail** · 3rd June 18, 08:18 PM

Lay 'em flat in the Kilt Hose Drawer. . . also serving as the Sporran Drawer, the Flashes Drawer, and the Belt Drawer. It would also be the Sgian Dhu Drawer if I hadn't lost the said Sgian Dhu a dozen or so years ago.

**KiltedSergeant** · 3rd June 18, 10:46 PM

Originally Posted by Friday

I come at this from a slightly different direction since I knit my own kilt hose. For me storing also means displaying my hand knit hose. I am not a great knitter but after all that work your are going to have to look at them even if you do not want to.

I do want to. Photos?