However, I'm in the middle of an exception after agreeing to knit a pair about a year ago, getting the yarn about half a year ago. What attracted me was knitting something to be part of an 18th-century style costume (they're for a member of the society of Gustafs Skål), trying to create something that could have been worn in the late 1700s.
What didn't attract me is knitting a lot of stocking stitch with hardly any patterns. Fortunately, I thought of a picture in a book I one saw: a pair of knee-length stockings with a stars on the calves, stars that grew smaller to harmonize with the decreases - and perhaps to accentuate and draw attention to a shapely calf? (Or a trompe-l'œil effect to make a less fortunate wearer's calves look shapely?)
However that may be, I tried to do something similar here - to make them less tedious to knit - even though I'm certain those stockings weren't that old, and for all I know stockings may not have been decorated like this in the 1700s.
5 comments:
I love the color of your new Fan! It's gorgeous!
Good luck for the second stocking!
Mariew
Thank goodness we are not all the same - I love sock knitting because it IS mindless. hahahaha I do really admire yours and have never knit a pair of stockings. Your textured knitting is always so nicely done. And who gets the lovely new "Fan"? It is gorgeous.
Ron in Mexico
Beautiful 'Viften' and 'knit and purl'.
I understand why you don't enjoy sock knitting :o) I look forward to seeing your 1700 year socks.
Mona
Coming home from Estonia I really regret that I did not buy the book The Haapsalu Shawl,it was as cheap as 20 Euro in a bookstore, men it would have caused me overweigth.
I don't enjoy knitting socks either (or on dpns generally) but your project looks very interesting from a number of different points of view! How tall are those stockings? How will they be worn?
And the colour of your new 'Fan' is really lovely.
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