Pink Panache

[The F-H.C.A.G.]

So, it's been too long since I broke out the sewing machine. I realized I had made a few variations of an X-Kilt (corduroy and alternating tartan with black), but I had not yet actually made a basic X-Kilt yet!

Panache has been asking for something to knock around the garden in, so we went to the fabric store together. He kept getting distracted by various corduroys, but I told him I just wasn't up for that again (not yet, maybe next year). I just want to make it perfectly clear that I was not responsible for this fabric. It was 100% his choice. I kept trying to steer him towards the blander, tan or khaki colors. But nooooo, he had to have this.

So, without further ado, the material for the "Pink Panache" X-Kilt. It's a cotton/poly blend and is NOT a twill, so no alignment of twill lines to worry about.



And this is the color it turned the wash water (I washed it on hot 3 times before the water stopped turning this color):



Today, I measured and ripped, joined two lengths, hemmed and marked the pleats. It will have a 10" A-shaped apron, and 11 3" pleats. Waist of 37", rump of 43", fell of 10", drop of 23" (so now everyone knows my husband's measurements ). Here I was measuring the drop to prepare to rip lengths:



Because of the color, I will not torture you all with too many step by step pics this time, since I've already posted two ad nauseum X-Kilt pictorials:

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=25353

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=26970


Be well,

[McMurdo]

We will of course need to see the Pink Panache in all it's Glory once it is done, on the man himself.

[cloves]

oh jeeze Panache....once you put this thing on, i'm gonna have to take back what I said about your "blue eyes" in the 'glengarry hat' thread.

[The Wizard of BC]

Of course there is always what we call "The Pink Death"

[pipesndrumsnun]

Very nice!

[mkmound]

Well, you did say on another thread that Jamie is a metro-sexual . . . I think he's going to need to borrow Ham's boa to go with this kilt.

Perhaps a rhinestone-studded sporran?

[Dirk Skene]

...........another thread that Jamie is a metro-sexual . . . ..................

I've been called "metro". What exactly is that anyway

[McMurdo]

Of course there is always what we call "The Pink Death"

Oh nobody would see you coming in that camo, don't tell me Steve you're working on Grant's next kilt.

[scoutniagara]

Oh nobody would see you coming in that camo, don't tell me Steve you're working on Grant's next kilt.

Come on, McMurdo. You know you've got your heart set on having a kilt of this camo colour, to contrast with your Isle of Skye.

Grant would be ticked, though, 'cause you'd get all of the kilt checks.

[Perldog007]

Come on, McMurdo. You know you've got your heart set on having a kilt of this camo colour, to contrast with your Isle of Skye.

Grant would be ticked, though, 'cause you'd get all of the kilt checks.

Easy on the pink death camo lads, Steve will need about ten yards of that for my plastic flamingo hunting kilt. Last time out I only got one lonely plastic bird before the authorities caught up with me and bought me a coffee (while we were doing the paperwork ) .

Terribly embarrassing. I did not even get a chance to explain that I was engaged in a catch & release hunt sponsored by F.L.O.C.K. (Flamingo Lawn Ornament Church of the Kindred).

Must have been those khaki bermuda shorts I had on. No protection from the empire whatsoever.

But with the power of the pink death kilt I might catch the daily limit before the storm troopers even know the season has been opened.

Of course if I had a maroon kilt clad plastic flamingo hunting guide the sky would be the limit.