If I thought that hand sewing the hem of 6-7 yards of a Stillwater kilt was tedious, I stand corrected. Sewing up the inner pleats edges was more tedious. But I must admit-necessary. Otherwise the recipient would have a helluva time getting the pleats to stay ironed in. Corduroy barely wrinkles, but this also means it does not like to hold a crease.



Here, I've pinned in the taper. Sorry I didn't take any pictures of the process, but Panache was writing more of his story and was not available to hold the camera. Given that my victim has a 44" waist and a 48" rump, there are only 4" of taper needed. This means that I was able to taper without any overlap of the inner pleats. But, I chose to overlap two pleats (at each hip) and have no taper for the back 2 pleats (actually, no taper for the back pleat and half of each one to each side of the back pleat). Then ~1/2" taper for the rest of the pleats. Once this was done, I measured to be sure I had a 44" waist. Yes indeed! To be absolutely honest, I had to play a bit before I reached this perfection



Then, I sewed them down



My mother-in-law was over and her measurements are almost identical to my subject's, so I wrapped the kilt around her at this point. I'm sorry, there are no pictures-she forbade it

That's all for today. Tomorrow I work, and we have guests over the weekend, so there is not likely to be another installment until next week. We'll see. I have decided on my next project-I'm going to make a box pleated kilt (or more likely a kilted mini-skirt) with one color or pattern on the outer pleats and another on the inner. Since I'm allergic to wool, I was thinking of doing an inner cotton cloth in black and an outer pleat of X-Marks tartan. Then I'll look like an X-Marks cheerleader!

"There's only one site
With the best sight
And it feels right
And we love it a lot
X..X..X
Marks the Scot!"

Be well,