Tartan Kilt Hose

[Pleater]

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:

[OC Richard]

Sketchbook 76 has a pattern for cloth hose. I made myself a pair, a simple two-colour tartan when cut on the bias made nice diced hose. Fairly quick and easy to make. Due to being cut on the bias they have a bit of stretch to them, but need garters to hold them up.

The pattern looked pretty much like this one found online