Over Christmas, I decided to make a kilt for my younger brother who has been kilt-less. I had just competed my own X-Kilt a week earlier and decided to jump back into the breech again. This time, I saved a bunch of time by creating two clear plastic (lexan) marking templates: a 3" and 5.25" one to speed up marking the pleats. I cut them on my tablesaw. Combined with a large carpentry square, the markups took no time at all. Here are a couple of photos of the kilt in progress and the finished product. I will admit screwing up a couple of details that I had to fix: I tacked down the whole velcro strip on the back of the front apron and had to undo it, and I picked the wrong fabric. This fabric is a little stretchy and made my edges curl a bit. Oh well, if likes the kilt he can darn well make his own out of a better twill!
This kilt took me the entire extended Lord of the Rings trilogy and then some to complete, so about 14 hours or so.
As soon as the link is working, I will post it for the photos.
Cheers,
Dana