Long story even longer (historic thigh high stockings)

 It goes back to a couple of years, when a reenacting friend in Italy bought some knee high stocking from me, then last year asked me to knit him a thigh high one, which I posted in a few reenactment group, from where a guy from the US found me, asking me to knit him not one but two pairs, from pure wool. 

Then I started searching for proper yarn, that is not to thin (as I knew the knitting will be loooong and boring enough), and not to thick. I found some New Zealand wool on Etsy that seemed okay, and were available in the colors I got asked for, I ordered them and waited. 

A few weeks later the yarn arrived and I started knitting, but as we already agreed, knitting these stocking are incredibly boring, as all you knit is stocking stitch, around and around, with some shaping thrown in. 

I started with the black ones, and I knitted them on trips (we did had quite a few events last year that required travelling), but sometimes bordeom got the better of me, and put them aside... 

I finished the first pair in November, and then asked a friend to modell them for me, for some pictures. 

He is a reenactor, quite tall, and smewhat thinner (younger and more muscular) than my customer, but pictures we had. 

And then I started again with the dark, brick red yarn. Seeing that the black pair almost reached up to the crotch of the tall friend, I knitted the reddish one a few rows shorter.

Then we started to investigate shipping options, but each and every one was worst than the other. 

By then it was about a year, since I received the advanced payment, so I just threw up my hand and said, lets just ship the safest possible way and be done with it. Of course, it cost me and arm and a leg, but I just received the confirmation that the package arrived safe and sound, the recepient is happy with them, so that is one thing off my list.