Originally Posted by
Southern Breeze
KCW-Thanks for mentioning the appendix,I tried to post a reply earlier but had internet trouble.The few questions that have come up while I work on my kilt have been answerd in your and Alan's posts.As long as you stay ahead of me,things will be okay.I'm making mine out of tan medium weight twill.So far,so good. :grin:
Southern Breeze,
Alan is the one who is ahead, I'm just making it up as I go along and hoping not to screwit up too badly. If you using a medium solid color twill, then you have a fabric that it probably similar to the blue one I am using, which I think is the greatest first choice for a kilt or the most damnable fabric in the world for a kilt depending on what stage I am at. I think that the gray material I bought it actually going to be a little easier. Since I bought double width material, I can mess up the first one in both fabrics and still have enough material to make one free of my initial mistakes.
Keep us informed on yor progress, and I will do the same. To date I have cut the material to the correct length, marked the apron edges and center pleat location. What I am struggling with, based on Barb's book, is how to lay out the pleats. The book assumes you will have a tartan that will dictate the pleat size, whether pleating to the sett or stripe, based on the amount o material you have and the person to be kilted. What I, and you, have is a set amount of material, that can be pleated in any number of ways. The hardest for me is determining how many pleats (leaning toward ~ 29). that would give me approx 29 pleats with a 3/4" pleat size. My concern is that the pleat depth will be too shallow. Have to try and see!
The kilt concealed a blaster strapped to his thigh. Lazarus Long
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