Gosh (blush) I just read a message from yesterday I somehow missed

I supose I am a bit of a perfectionist when making garments. However, after 50 years I should be good at it.

I am just starting to accumulate a set of photos in order to have them to handy for reference, rather than trying to make some rather used kilts look good enough to photograph.

I do need to practise with the digital camera - so as to get things in focus, and also remember to take photos during construction, to show the methods, and also to be able to do them again.

The official kilt under construction at the moment has 50 pleats (could be more, eventually) 2/5ths of an inch reveal and a varying depth, so as to create identical reveals of black edged grey but alternate black/red and black/white inside the pleats. The fabric is a crazy striped pattern before pleating, so it is interesting to see how orderly it is when folded.

Having pulled out some material and kilts to take photos, now I have heaps of cloth everywhere that needs to be tidied away or finished and hung up - but of course things have got lost - I have a grey white printed stripe kilt almost done that has lost its waistband, and several separated from the thread I was using to sew them. What is worse, I can't find the micrometer. Yes - sad isn't it - I use a micrometer to measure the pleat reveals.

So - hopefully I will soon be filling up my Photobucket album with in focus shots of nicely pressed pleats and finished kilts, but the normal situation prevails just at the moment.