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9th March 07, 01:30 PM
#11
The strip that you sew the velcro to is so that the stitching doesn't show on the over-apron. You COULD stitch it to the over-apron and forget the strip, but then you'd have this rectangle of machine-stitching on the over-apron. I decided that was yuck, thus the strip. If someone didn't want to use velcro, say they preferred the look of snaps, then hang the strip and just put the snaps in on the over-apron and be done with it.
Also, in a traditional kilt, the over-apron up near the waistband is backed with hair canvas. There's a layer of hair canvas between the wool and the lining material. You won't see that in Stillwaters, BTW, but perhaps you remember it from way2fractious's kilts? I can show you on one of mine at the next beer and kilts night. Well, finding hair canvas is a pain in the rump. I had to order mine from online at Baer Fabrics (thanks for the link, Barb T!) , Joanne's Fabric doesn't carry it. We could have used iron-on interfacing since it's unlikely that folks will make an X-Kilt out of wool, but I thought...let's just kill two birds with one stone. We'll make a strip, sew the velcro to that, and use the now stiffened strip to back up the upper part of the over-apron.
Just to show, someone turned right around and made a fantastic-looking X-Kilt out of tweed! No iron-on interfacing, there!
Since I happen to know who your victim is, I'm going to suggest that you drop the width of the over-apron to 8 inches. That is, unless those persons hips are a LOT bigger than I think they are. Oh, and be sure to A-shape the over-apron, like I write in the instructions. You two should talk/PM. Think about it! 8 inches, however, doesn't provide a lot of overlap, so make sure that the under-apron wraps around your victim just as far as you had originally planned. It's my gut feeling that the X-Kilts I made for Captain Jak and Dan the Brewer would have benefitted from narrower over-aprons, and in fact when Dan the Brewer finishes his weight-loss program, I'm going to change his kilt by making the over-apron narrower. I wasn't trying for the "traditional" look here, more for something like a Utilikilt look and I think the UK's have a six-inch overlap. Piper George's X-Kilt has a proportionally narrower (10-inch, if I remember rightly, but PG is a big guy) over-apron, and it looks "right" to me.
BTW, when you make Panache's X-Kilt, you might sew up the pleats first, then pin it on the man with no A-Shaping to the apron and scratch your noggin whilst gazing lovingly at him, focusing on his nether regions... Then rip it off of him, have your way with him, then re-fold and re-pin with no A-shaping. Stick the non-A-shaped-apron kilt back on him and decide which looks the most groovy...A-Shaping or no A-shaping. Note the Utilikilts are REVERSE A-shaped, their over-aprons are actually smaller at the bottom than they are at the top. That might be a novel look. What's to lose, *FEH*! Try it.
KCW tore out one of his pleats on his X-Kilt to make his over apron WIDER, more like a traditional kilts width. That's cool, it's just a different look. The whole point of the X-Kilt is for every person to mess with it and make a basic kilt with a modern appearrance and box pleats, to suit their personal fancy....Oh, and ot have fun in the process!
BTW, I WILL admit that I sewed much of Piper George's Dutch MacKay kilt while "under the influence" of Aberlour ten-year !
Last edited by Alan H; 9th March 07 at 01:44 PM.
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