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8th November 11, 06:10 AM
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Re: At it, again...
Alan H
I know you intend to make your friends kilt yourself and all credit to you, I wish I had your skill but thought Mike might be interested in this one for sale if he likes the Holyrood Gold tartan - I saw it after reading your thread and it clicked.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MADE-ORDER...item5890a0a40a
Happy sewing
Eck
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10th November 11, 11:15 AM
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Re: At it, again...
 Originally Posted by Eck
Alan H
I know you intend to make your friends kilt yourself and all credit to you, I wish I had your skill but thought Mike might be interested in this one for sale if he likes the Holyrood Gold tartan - I saw it after reading your thread and it clicked.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MADE-ORDER...item5890a0a40a
Happy sewing
Eck
That is exactly the deal he jumped on this past summer...
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11th November 11, 10:10 AM
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Re: At it, again...
Mikes kilt, under construction...

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14th November 11, 11:07 AM
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Re: At it, again...
After pondering for a while and holding up thread, I've decided to do something new, that I've never done before. I'm sewing the upper part of the fell with a medium dark blue-gray, but the bottom part of the fell with a grayish-brown. This is top-stitching, as this will be a casual/throwing kilt so the stitching shows. However, if I'd used blue-gray all the way through and sewn the bottom of the fell to the waistband all one color, the stitching would have been seriously contrasted to the fabric in the brownish part of the fell. So....two passes through. I'm almost half-tempted to stitch the bottom part by hand, but we shall see.
I fine-tuned the pleat tapers this AM, and sewed down 1/3rd of the pleats... of the "top half".
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21st November 11, 12:09 PM
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Re: At it, again...
This morning I top-stitched the bottom half of 5 of the pleats. Then I took a good, hard look and decided to rip them out and hand-stitch them. I'm happy enough with the top half, and I want the strength of machine-sewing, but I can only tolerate so much stripe misalignment. The topmost white stripe is pretty badly zigzagged, but that will be under the belt, and almost under the waistband, so I'm not worried. The white stripe "next lower down" is much better, though not as good as if I'd hand sewn. I'm OK with it. I VERY carefully aligned the contrasting stripes that will be at the midpoint of the fell, so that's fine.
It's not a big deal to hand-sew "half" really more like 40% of 23 pleats, and it's worth it to me.
Putting them in and ripping them out took me about 90 minutes and I couldn't stand making NO progress, so I finished off the end of the under-apron and put in the hair canvas (actually interfacing) in the over-apron, while tacking down the reverse pleat.
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21st November 11, 02:35 PM
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Re: At it, again...
more pictures, more pictures (& good work)
waulk softly and carry a big schtick
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22nd November 11, 11:08 AM
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Re: At it, again...
Ah, they'd be boring....old bald guy sits at kitchen table in his pajamas, sewing.
Nyet! 
However, since Mike and I are almost exactly the same size, I'll strap it on and snap some pics before I box it up and send it to Mindy.
I sewed down 7 pleats this morning...the bottom 40% anyway. Stripe alignment is quite acceptable. This took about an hour and a quarter. Not bad.
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