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

[elitekiltedcommando]

i eat glue

This is what I get for not paying attention when my friends are around...

[Fedgunner]

Just ordered 8 yards of material..... This should be interesting!

[sjrapid]

Bump.

Moderators, please could this thread be a sticky?

Best regards

[Fedgunner]

Kudos to the designer!
I do have a question tho.
Has anyone made one in "Big Guy" size yet?

My camo material has arrived, The wife has a new sewing machine and is willing. I'm hoping for some pointers for the "46 and north" group of us that wish to make one of these.

[cacunn]

Kudos to the designer!
I do have a question tho.
Has anyone made one in "Big Guy" size yet?

Fedgunner
I have a 53 inch waist and 54.5 rump I have made 2.5 or 2.75. Once in khaki twill, one in a cotton flannel and one in wool using the x-kilt as a guide but trying knife pleats and on where the material was just cut..

If you have the problem that I have, a beer belly, a strict measurement of shows a rump that is smaller than the waist. you might look at this threat for some additional information:

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=24339

Also when I measured my rump I held a piece of poster board - thin card board - around my waist. I used this to represent the apron and to bring the tape measure out to the point my waist would be if it went straight down. I also adjusted the apron's width. I think a 12 inch apron on a large guy doesn't look good. I think it makes the waist look bigger.

My logic was:

I wanted the apron 20 inches and adjusted all the other measurements.

54.5 runp = 55 inches - 20 inch apron = 35 inches of pleats.
35 inches of pleats / 3 inch pleats = 11.6 pleats or 12 pleats

I dropped the number of pleats to 11 X 3 inches each = 33 inches across pleats.

55 inch rump - 33 inches across pleats = 22 inch apron.

I kept all the other factor the same.

I also left extra material on the under apron. When In had the completed the pleats I checked the fit. If the fit wasn't right I could add a pleat and adjust the aprons.

I am not an expert, yet, but there are a lot on this forum that will be happy to help.

[PapiMoffett]

I have a 50in waist and a 56in rump. Last night I finished a black twill x-kilt using these directions. I have quite a bit of sewing experience, so I did things differently from the directions, but the only thing I noticed is the over apron pleat (big one next to the first 3" pleat) hangs open more than I want it to. I think my thighs are too big.