X-Kilt: Sew Your Own, manual available for download

[Southern Breeze]

Well, it is MS Word 97, not 2000 or 2003.

I'm cheap and I hate buying Microsoft products!

The thing has grown to 30 pages! Incredible. Maybe I shouldn't put in any more pics, it'll just make the whole thing bigger!

I did some investigating and found that if I open Wordpad with AutoCad running in the background things get rather ugly and go south very quickly. I thought I'd mention this in case anyone else has trouble.


And now back to your regulary scheduled thread.

[Juggalotus]

Thanks Alan.

Oh, and if you don't want to buy MS products, check out www.openoffice.org. Its a full office suite for the price of your time spent downloading and installing it (read as "free"). That's what I use at home and it will open both open formats and MS formats.

Anyway, thanks for the directions, I'll get pictures up as soon as I get this put together.

[Livingston]

I did some investigating and found that if I open Wordpad with AutoCad running in the background things get rather ugly and go south very quickly. I thought I'd mention this in case anyone else has trouble.


And now back to your regulary scheduled thread.

Having been in that situation in the past, distant computer past at this time, I found that increasing the amount of RAM in the system would take care of it. Of course there have been a few "upgrades" to Windows, Word and ACAD since then

[Alan H]

Heath Bar asked me some questions about

1. the specific placement of the velcro on the over-apron-strip and

2. holding the excess material of the under-aprons' left edge in place.

I incoporated my answers to His questions into Edition 2.01 (*LOL*) and am uploading it right now.

Namely: sew the velcro on the strip about 1.25 inches down from the top of the strip

and

my belt usually hold the excess of the under-apron in place, but if you want to, you can put a buttonhole in the upper corner of the under-apron and button it in place. Alternatively, you can sew in some more velcro.

[Alan H]

Thanks to WalkerK, you can now download the .pdf file (MUCH smaller than the MS Word file) here:

http://users.california.com/~ahebert/X_Kilt_adobe.pdf

Make sure to take note of my previous post for two clarifying points...

I'm gone...out of town next week so if you have questions, put them here and I'll answer them when I get back. If you have suggestions to improve the instructions, put them here, too.

And if you MAKE one....we want PICS!

[Barb T]

Alan

This is truly wonderful. I _love_ your style of writing and all the advice you built in. What a terrific resource for someone who wants to make a contemporary kilt!

Barb

[Rex_Tremende]

Alan -

Thanks for taking the time to put together such a comprehensive guide on building one's own X-kilt and sharing it with the group.

On page three, you state: "As of right now, no other contemporary kiltmaking company that I know of making box-pleated kilts, so we’re not stepping on anyone’s toes, here."

In fact, there is a company in San Diego that makes box-pleated contemporary kilts, though we have not discussed them in xmarksthescot. I posted a photo of one of these kilts in the Do's and Dont's thread some time ago, but the subject was whether a kilt looked good with western wear. The company is MacLeo, which mostly deals in leather/fetish wear. The kilt can be seen here and here. I think they retail for about $200, if I recall my conversation with one of the the store owners.

Still, I don't think you are stepping on any toes, given the design of your kilt and its purpose. I just thought you might want to know that the concept is out there already.

Regards,
Rex in Cincinnati

[Kiltman]

Somehow saying thank you does not seem to be enough, but what more can I do?
Thank you. I'll get to work on one very soon.