GGGP has taken up Highland Athletics and is tearing it up. She's also a Babe with a capital "B" and has great legs. THERE, I said it. . She's also trim and smallish. I think she's about 5' 4". I had some Warrior tartan polyester-viscose in my fabric pile from another throwing kilt I made last year and so between this and that it looks like the next project will be a throwing and pubbing kilt for Good Girl Gone Plaid!

This will be fun! Here's the tartan.



I know that both fluter and Riverkilt have kilts in this tartan, maybe they'll drop some pics into this thread.

OK, so looks like it's going to be a five-yard (maybe five-and-a-half) pleated to the white stripe. This will work fine, I'll get something like 18 -19 pleats out of this, but they'll be smallish because GGGP's rumpus, like the rest of her, is smallish. I don't want to pleat it to sett, because the reason I have this tartan in the first place is because I built a kilt for Summer Pierson out of this stuff, and Summer will almost certainly will show up at a Southern California Highland Games, and you KNOW how women are about wearing the same dress to a function! Summers kilt is pleated to sett.

GGGP and I discussed which stripe to pleat to, and decided on the white stripe. She gets to decide if it's a velcro closure "quick on-quick off" or a more highfalutin' straps-and-buckles-closure. Heck, maybe she wants buttons and ribbons, we'll see. So here's the topic of discussion for the Board.

How short should it be?

Heh.

Heh.



Construction begins as soon as I finish Mike's kilt, which will probably be this coming weekend.