Kilt hose in progress

[O'Neille]

$40 just covers a pound of the wool I use! The stuff I got from the State Fair was half-price. Now I have to pay full price.

Wow, I had not idea that sheep were worth that much. Seems like they'd be worth more growing wool than in a stew. I was just making a joke about your "right" hose being completed w/o the left one. I'll have to keep my eyes open when I'm tartan searching for good deals on yarn for ya. O'Neille

[Southern Breeze]

Those look good. I had no idea wool was that expensive!

[Alan H]

Flippin' GORGEOUS.

drooling

[MacWage]

If I may ask, what kind of yarn do you like to use?

I assume that is NOT Lion Brand wool, like is in many craft and fabric stores (and make pretty good toories for homemade balmorals)!

[billmcc]

I had no idea wool was that expensive!

I guess you haven't bought a new kilt recently.

[Red Lioness]

I assume that is NOT Lion Brand wool, like is in many craft and fabric stores (and make pretty good toories for homemade balmorals)!

Nope. Most Lion Brand wool, if it has ever even seen a sheep is only about 25% real wool and the rest is acrylic. Acrylic has it's good points (machine washable, for starters) But I'm the kind of purist who likes real wool.

The wool I'm using for the hose is 100% virgin wool (undyed and untreated) from the Indiana Woolen Project, a orginization that promotes the goods of Indiana shepherds.

Wool is just about the most perfect fabric out there; it can stretch to 80% and still retain its shape, it keeps you warm even when its wet and its actually fire resistant!

[auld argonian]

They've got "ships" in Indiana?

Running joke over the course of our recent vacation trek from Chicago to Minnesota was buying a farm and raising "ships" (can't resist the Nac MacFeegle pronunciation) which we would shear, dye, weave tartan and make our own kilts from scratch, as it were...my daughter and I are sold on teh idea...wife and son are dubious...

As I explained to daughter: if you want "ships", you obviously haven't ever SMELLED "ships" in their natural habitat.

Glad that you have the coolness to use material that's locally produced...it's a good example for everybody: support our locals!

Best

AA

[Southern Breeze]

Nope. Most Lion Brand wool, if it has ever even seen a sheep is only about 25% real wool and the rest is acrylic. Acrylic has it's good points (machine washable, for starters) But I'm the kind of purist who likes real wool.

The wool I'm using for the hose is 100% virgin wool (undyed and untreated) from the Indiana Woolen Project, a orginization that promotes the goods of Indiana shepherds.

Wool is just about the most perfect fabric out there; it can stretch to 80% and still retain its shape, it keeps you warm even when its wet and its actually fire resistant!

Now the price makes sense, I'm used to seeing the wool yarn at Wally World and other crafts stores.
Thanks for the info!

[Ialtog]

As a native Hoosier I was thrilled to see you are using wool from the Indiana Woolen Project. That's a great group. A friend of mine has been trying to get me interested in learning how to knit...this thread might have just won me over.

[Ialtog]

Hey Red Lioness (or anyone else who knows about this stuff), I don't really know anything about knitting, but if I do give in and have my friend teach me how to knit, do you have any suggestions for a good pattern for kilt hose? That is what I'd like to make, and we have some awfully cool locals I could buy my wool from.