Do you want to knit your own Kilt Hose

**Navyguy** · 11th January 09, 06:33 AM

I'll give it a try, although it's been years since I touched needles.

**Gozzard** · 11th January 09, 06:42 AM

Please add me to your group. I was just starting to look for someone to teach me and hear you are.

Stacy

**ChattanCat** · 11th January 09, 09:00 AM

Originally Posted by calanacrafts

Thanks again for all the interest, We have 18 members so a good wee clan of knitters. I'll soon have you all making your own. Still have room for more. I myself will be putting the names of those who have commented on my posts into a hat and before I start knitting mine I will pull your name out and this pair will be yours, you will know of course that the pair will be yours because I will ask for your measurements. I will be knitting mine in a blue lovat shade. A kind of Scottish present so to speak. I hope it is OK with the mods to do this.

Anything free is, well, good. If the mods mind, I will have to kick some ****.

**Red_Raven** · 11th January 09, 09:12 AM

Count me in. I'm just finishing up my first pair of socks so I think I can handle it. Just need to get the right size needles.

**Thunderbolt** · 12th January 09, 07:04 AM

Ach, I wish I had the time and patience....

Maybe someday when I break my leg (Can one plan for that?), I'll give it a go...

Happy knitting!

**piperdbh** · 13th January 09, 11:49 AM

My father learned to juggle when he broke his leg. We had bruised apples and oranges all winter.
If you have time to watch TV and post to online forums (which shall remain nameless) you've got time to knit. I knit a row, then check for new posts, then knit another row, check for new posts, etc. Knitting teaches you patience, lowers blood pressure, and helps you sleep. Plus, if you sip a little whisky along with it, you wind up with some really "interesting" kilt hose.

**runewolf** · 13th January 09, 11:57 AM

LOL, I had to let Joan know that in one of the "new age" magazines we get, they have an article on knitting as a form of meditation. Came the same month I decide to learn lol. I think that once the frustration of trying to figure out what the instruction book I have is trying to tell me what to do and missing a stitch from the dog or cat bugging me, I will eventually lower my blood pressure.

**a Grant** · 13th January 09, 02:29 PM

HI, I'm interested in joining this group!!

**Pleater** · 13th January 09, 02:41 PM

I found some khaki coloured yarn when I was looking for something else, so I thought that I would do some hose to go with my DPM kilts - plain ones rather than try for argyles.

I have just got to where the toe of the sock is try-on-able and am remembering what a joy it is to have hand made to fit socks forming on the needles.

I don't need lessons - I think I have the hang of it after 40 years - I can make either toe up or top down socks too.

Knitting socks is interesting and not so time consuming as making a jersey, plus you can get a heap of yarn and just keep making them, if you wear one into a hole you can pull out that bit and reknit it.

I thoroughly recommend it as a pastime.

Anne the Pleater

**okiwen** · 15th January 09, 12:26 AM

Pleater, sounds like you can do just about everything.

I signed up for the group just so I could read along.

I think I have too many pokers in the fire. If I start doing one more thing I'm interested in I'll never get to go to bed. I have wanted to learn to knit for years but between the house building the saddle and holster making and the real job I think I'll just enjoy the successes of everyone else.

I can't wait.

K