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[David Thorpe]

Vogue Fabrics online has Tailor's Pride hair canvas for around $9 US/yard. Got it within a week of my online order.

Looking forward to seeing the finished product. I have a USA Semi-trad in MacNaughten Muted, my wife's clan tartan. It gets lots of raves. Like to see how it compares to the Ancient.

[Alan H]

Vogue Fabrics online has Tailor's Pride hair canvas for around $9 US/yard. Got it within a week of my online order.

Looking forward to seeing the finished product. I have a USA Semi-trad in MacNaughten Muted, my wife's clan tartan. It gets lots of raves. Like to see how it compares to the Ancient.

The Marton Mills PV muted MacNaughton is a very small sett. Actually, that's not true, because if you look closely at the sett, you'll discover that it's not based around the thin stripes. You must proceed through two of those to find the axis where the sett repeats. So the sett is actually twice as big as it seems.

On this stuff from Fraser and Kirkbright, the "apparent" sett....meaning the space between the thin stripes is fairly large, like the size of a "normal" sett. So the actual sett is HUGE....like 10 inches. That precluded me from pleating the kilt to sett, though I could have cleverly pleated it to half-sett and working in the reversal of the stripes. That would have required rather more cleverness than I'm capable of so I pleated to stripe, half-sett. This works out just fine and I think it looks look....looks like a regimental kilt. It also means that I have a bit left over, perhaps the Luminous Joan will get a skirt (ha! fat chance) or someday I'll make myself a vest or something.

The Ancient color scheme is rather more orange, as opposed to the brick red of the muted, and the "true" red of the modern.

I will be making a 6-yard PV MacNaughton kilt, probably late this winter, as my current one has shrunk...ha!.... and I want one to throw in, for next summers Scotland trip.

[Alan H]

Just to keep MacMillans son on his toes and sans Harrassment Ammunition, I started on the steeking last night. Not that I worked on it all that long, but I did get through 10 pleats. The stitches aren't pretty, but they don't have to be, they're invisible from the outside and hidden under the lining on the inside. What they do have to be is strong, and these are.

[Thomas H]

you are going to make us wait , are't you ? any in progress pictures ?
Please we are joining just to see it lol

[David Thorpe]

...I pleated to stripe, half-sett. This works out just fine and I think it looks look....looks like a regimental kilt...

I have yet to build a kilt for myself in anything besides stripe pleating. I understand Barb's instructions for pleating to the sett, but in all cases have preferred the military pleating after "pinning them up" both ways. There is just something about a kilt, especially an 8-yarder, pleated to the stripe that I find compelling.

Looking forward to seeing the pics of your Ancient.

[Alan H]

NO PICTURES. I larready did that, showed pictures of t his thing....three years ago and didn't finish it! I promise the Peacock Picture Post to end all Picture Posts when it's done, though.

[vorpallemur]

Vogue Fabrics online has Tailor's Pride hair canvas for around $9 US/yard. Got it within a week of my online order.

If you order soon, you'll get the stuff that I was fondling last night. Wait, that didn't come out right.

I mean to say, it's there, on the shelf, waiting for you to ask Vogue to mail it to you. I saw it.

[Alan H]

If you order soon, you'll get the stuff that I was fondling last night. Wait, that didn't come out right.

I mean to say, it's there, on the shelf, waiting for you to ask Vogue to mail it to you. I saw it.

OH, I ordered some a couple of weeks ago, so I'm all set. I even have enough for young Garrett's kilt, which will be the next one on the table.

I got ten more pleats "steeked". 11 more to go, and then I cut out the pleats in the fell and carefully maneuver the extra-deep pleat I made with the join, as it so worked out that the inner crease will be smack-dab right on the zig-zag stitching that holds the two halves together.

[David Thorpe]

...as it so worked out that the inner crease will be smack-dab right on the zig-zag stitching that holds the two halves together.

That's a well-known corollary to Murphy's Law, drat his nasty hide.

[Alan H]

Finished the steeking and cut out the pleats in the fell today. I left 3 pleats at each 'end" un-cut in case I ever want to make this kilt smaller. Next up, the reinforcing canvas.