Quote Originally Posted by kilted_brewer View Post
Beautiful! I've had a couple of excellent knitters I know (and I own at least one of their Aran sweaters) turn down "the opportunity" to knit some gorgeous kilt hose for me such as the ones you show above, so I am envious! I'd agree that more cuff would be ideal, but those are great! I'm sure it's a tough thing to measure the stretch when no stretch equals best looking, but full stretch is too tight. It's beyond me.
My method is to knit a tension swatch in the round and pull it over the ball of my foot to see if it stretches to be how snug I'd like. Knowing the ball of my foot is 9.5 inches I can then work out how many stitches I'll need at each point up the leg. My mistake here was not working both cables into the swatch. The travelling stichwork actually seemed to stretch nearly the same as the plain stockinette.