Another pair of Gairloch pattern kilt hose

[Tobus]

Over the weekend I finished up another pair of short socks for office wear. I needed to use up some yarn to make room in my yarn stash bag. I have several other kilt hose projects I'm itching to get started on. Anyway, I decided to practise the duplicate stitch technique on this pair of office socks. It's essentially embroidery, weaving in yarn with a tapestry needle through existing knit stitches on the parent knit material.

While it feels like cheating as opposed to Fair Isle style knitting with two colours, duplicate stitching is useful for decorative bits that aren't practical to knit in from the beginning. One of my upcoming projects will rely on this, so it was just a bit of training on my part.