X-Kilt 2.0 (Beta)

[Pleater]

Hmmm - maybe I should have patented the idea.....

I have to say that the method of pleating - the 'ghillie kinguisse' seems to be the one which is most apt for me - the rear facing pleats both sides mean I can get around my garden and other vegetated ground without having the kilt snatched off by every branch, when sitting I can spread the rear box pleat and let the other pleats hang free.

I do not sew down the fell these days - I found, when wearing an early version of the 'GK' (Hey New abreviation here!!!) kilt only half done that there was no real need. I am now making a kilt with 50 small pleats - due to the way the stripes fall, no way would I ever sew down 50 supressed pleats. The under pleats are alternately red and white with black and grey, the reveals are black and grey.

I make the vertical edges of the apron fall at the middle of the knee, then when I sit down the under apron pleats open and the aprons fall vertically.

[cacunn]

Pleater
I want to see pictures, this sounds like a great idea.

[Pleater]

I am working on a photo album - these are a couple of the first attempts at using the camera, and I am trying to remember to take photos of important steps in the process on the kilts in progress.

DPM kilt under the apple trees - centre back box pleat open. Fabric is 100% cotton, kilt is worn ironed but without the pleats pressed in.


Latest kilt (wool mix, 8 inch sett, 6yards) after first pressing - centre back box pleat to right of photo, showing as a darker line. The colour is distorted, being too blue.

[Pleater]

This is the fabric in more accurate colours.

[cacunn]

DPM kilt under the apple trees - centre back box pleat open. Fabric is 100% cotton, kilt is worn ironed but without the pleats pressed in.

Pleater
I picked up some yarn this weekend is woodland camo to see how it would knit up. You need to get some camo yarn and do some woodland camo hose. With the right shirt you could hide in the bushes and trees and wait to jump out a capture an Acryli-Beast.

[Pleater]

Somewhere I have a couple of skeins of wool random dyed in camo colours - I'll have to look them out and see how it knits up. I think it was a fairly soft yarn, it might do for hose.

I do have some military four colour DPM tee shirts, which I don't wear with the kilt as it is a three colour civilian pattern - I wear green or kahki with it.

I have a four colour woodland DPM material, and a desert, and a blue one (Bermuda Triangle?) all of which would make good kilts, I think, but I am working on the wool mixture kilts now that the weather is changing.

I am planing a military box pleat version of the Kinguisse style which I think is going to take 9 yards of material. If I do 30 pleats at 8 inches per pleat (one sett) it will take six strips of 54inch material. I have to piece it as the material was brushed on the right side, and to use the wrong side would mean the diagonal line of the twill weave would run the wrong way if I cut it along the warp, but cut along the weft, selvage to selvage, the diagonal is correct.