Looks Like A Stocking Anyway

Look, one whole stocking done. I've been knittin' like a mofo for the past week or so and for some reason watching all 947 taped episodes of Bablyon 5, with the ten year old commercials for stupid crap like pagers. I forgot completely about pagers. I even sat there for a second and wondered just what the hell they were. Did a kid's beeper go off in class forcing him to run willy-nilly to the nearest payphone? There were damn old enough that they didn't have text messaging yet, so maybe.

It's a bit larger than it should be, so you have to hike it up pretty far--which is fine by me. That would leave less leg out in the cold. I used the Victorian Silk Stocking pattern but in stockinette rather than rib stitch, plus I used the top of the 1940's stockings rather than the Victorian top. Then there's the skull business.

I used recycled yarn from a thrift-store sweater and size 2 dpns. Size 1 might have been a better choice for this yarn, since it's two strands of grey acrylic-blend thread, plus that would have made the stockings a bit less baggy 'round da ankles.

I'm trying to find some affordable silk in the colors used in the Victorian pattern, or maybe some rayon, so I can knit those the way they're supposed to be, since I don't have any gaudy Victorian stockings.

The second picture is the snazzy decreases up the back of the leg. For some reason hand-knit stockings seemed to be pretty much leg-shaped until the 1920s, then knit stockings turned all cone-shaped. The Victorian pattern had decreases to the knee, then increases for the calf, then decreases down to the ankle. The 1940's pattern just decreased down the leg all the way to the ankle.

No word from Knitty just yet. If I don't get a rejection in another couple weeks or so I'm in like Flynn. Unless that means I'm being arrested like Errol Flynn for boinking underage girls, then I'm not.