Canvas Kilt, ACK!!!!

[Alan H]

Sorry, Chasem. I must've been brain-dead yesterday, especially after you put the pic up to illustrate what you were trying to get across! I must beg for patience, now and then.

Steve and Robert, I bought a piece of that cotton New Brunswick tartan off of ebay. The link is in my previous post. If it's ten feet long and double wide, then when it's stitched together it'll be 6 + yards which is enough to make a pretty decent kilt. She says she adds another foot on each end actually, so I might wind up with closer to 7 yards, though by the time I wash the material and dry it, with shrinkage I bet I'll be back to 6 yards. Anyway, it's plenty to practice the techniques in Barb's book. With shipping it's all of sixteen bucks, and I can afford to totally hash sixteen bucks worth of material while I learn.

I was busy at work last night, but tonight I can go home at a normal hour and maybe I can get two more pleats folded in and stitched down and that box pleat put into my canvas kilt.

[Canuck]

, so I might wind up with closer to 7 yards, though by the time I wash the material and dry it, with shrinkage I bet I'll be back to 6 yards. Anyway, it's plenty to practice the techniques in Barb's book. With shipping it's all of sixteen bucks, and I can afford to totally hash sixteen bucks worth of material while I learn.

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I've got a feeling you will have to hem this one. The selvedge edge may be rough, so I would serge or overlock stitch it and hem it by 1/2". You might want to cold water wash it to keep the colour intact.
Have fun.

[Alan H]

I've got a feeling you will have to hem this one. The selvedge edge may be rough, so I would serge or overlock stitch it and hem it by 1/2". You might want to cold water wash it to keep the colour intact.
Have fun.

I think you're probably right. Hemming would be OK, though I'd rather finish the edge in another way and not add the extra weight. Ce la vie!

I wish I owned a serger, but no such luck. However, my lady's Husquevarna has an overlock stitch, so I'll just burn up half a spool of thread on that if the selvedge doesn't look so hot. We'll see!

Cold water wash makes sense....

[Canuck]

I think you're probably right. Hemming would be OK, though I'd rather finish the edge in another way and not add the extra weight. Ce la vie!

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If it's any consolation All my contemporary kilts are hemmed except the leather. It works out OK.