Having tried to make a bias cut waistcoat from what seemed to be a very large piece of fabric, and finding that it was too small, the idea of making bias cut anything would not be uppermost in my thoughts.
Knitting multicolour shaped garments is very economical on materials, even if it does take time.
Flat knitted multicolour hose can be - rather painfully - knitted by a simple domestic knitting machine if the colours are laid into the needles by hand and eye - the process is called intarsia.
Unfortunately the generation of knitters with the skill and patience to do intarsia is dying out - but the modern technologies might come to the rescue, perhaps printing the colours onto the hose might be a way to achieve them.
Anne the Pleater :ootd:
I presume to dictate to no man what he shall eat or drink or wherewithal he shall be clothed."
-- The Hon. Stuart Ruaidri Erskine, The Kilt & How to Wear It, 1901.
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