I have finally finished it! I made one (more!) mistake. I forgot to add the elastic before pressing. I added it later and it does not seem to matter when it is added. It definitely improves the swish!





I did do one thing differently from the book. (Sorry Barb!) I added a triple fringe as I think it looks better than a double one. (As far as I know, genuine military kilts are not fringed. Probably because the Army thinks that they would soon get messed up! Or that the soldiers would forget to comb them!) Follow the instructions on p. 99 of The Book, but take a wider piece of scrap, fold it with an edge offset of about 8mm., (About 5/16”) stitch it down (I used a machine.) and press it. Then, fringe all 3 layers to 8mm. Carry on as per the instructions and the total fringe width ends up the same as two ˝” fringes.




I used a black top band only because my local fabric store did not stock the usual grass-green one. (I had to finish it by hand as my machine stopped dead when it got to the double layer of canvas at the end of the apron (and I thought it was heavy duty.))

A final thought: both of my ex-military kilts have the twill lines running the wrong way! Apart from that, they are perfect. (Is this an officer/other ranks thing, or, is it not actually specified in the Specification?) (I just noticed that the twill also runs the wrong way on my Buchanan ex-Sierra Pipeband kilt. It's visible in the fringe pic.)

Now I have to decide what to do with the other half of the fabric.