Was "The Hand-Crafted Contemporary Kilt" ever made available?

[Kitfoxdave]

My wife and I made the style pockets the Macdonald video shows. I put it on the inside of the inner apron, about 1/4 of the way from the right side. I keep a minimalist style wallet in that pocket. Simply put my index finger between the shirt and inner apron and lift the pocket straight up.
A lot less difficult than getting your wallet out of the sporran, and the pocket does not show.

Just my experience.

[User]

My wife and I made the style pockets the Macdonald video shows. I put it on the inside of the inner apron, about 1/4 of the way from the right side. I keep a minimalist style wallet in that pocket. Simply put my index finger between the shirt and inner apron and lift the pocket straight up.
A lot less difficult than getting your wallet out of the sporran, and the pocket does not show.

Just my experience.

That certainly gives me something to think about. Thank you for sharing.

[Pleater]

There is a large pleat at the edge of both the aprons on my kilts.
I thought that there would be on most kilts - I got hold of kilt making instructions many years ago now and although it was for a standard kilt, there were double sized pleats at the edge of both aprons, on one side it was an extended pleat and on the other I think an inverted box pleat. I can't remember now if there was a gap between the edges of the folds or not. It could have been either >< or > < or it might have been the first at the waist and the second at hip level.

The centre back pleat of the reverse Kingussie style seemed logical as I used to ride a bike back then. It is a >< inverted box pleat. I matched the pattern - the join in the fabric was not always in the centre of the pleat - rather than lose any fabric I just joined up what I had and created a box pleat with equal folds.

Making the pocket from soft material might not actually disguise it. I'd be more inclined to use something which would not deform to show the outline of the contents, on the outside of the pocket, certainly, and to make a pocket bag with an expansion strip - it might be called a gusset, around it.

On the right hand side you could fix the pocket within the deep pleat or have a pocket hanging between the aprons - or both - as long as the under apron was wide enough to allow for safe access to it. I was thinking of a situation where you might want to have documents, tickets, booking forms - a significant amount of money, really secure, when you needed to have them really secure but also accessible.

Anne the Pleater

[Steve Ashton]

The way I did my Under-Apron pocket was a bit different.
Angled towards the apron overlap.



And a detail shot.



I was real particular about my Side Slash Pockets. I did everything I could so that they would lay flat even filled. That all the stress points were good and strong. And that if you did not know they were there you would not notice them.

The concept is that you make the Deep and Reverse pleats really deep. Sew in reinforcement to ensure keys and sharp things did not poke through.



Add reinforcement to the pocket opening.



Fold the Deep Pleat closed and sew in the shape of the pocket.



Fold the pocket closed and add bar tacks to reinforce top and bottom.



Trim everything up and you are done.

Here is the pattern for the pocket.

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