Repleating an old kilt

[Ronusan]

That's funny, I'm in the middle of doing almost the exact same thing right now too! I loved the olive green based tartan I found for my first kilts but the ones I made then had some "issues." Luckily I didn't know about cutting out the back side of the pleats at the time so the fabric was still intact enough that I'm combining the two 2.5 yard knife pleat kilts I made (yes, the extremely reduced yardage should've told me I wasn't doing it right) into a single 4 yard box pleat. Took 3 days to carefully "unstitch" all the machine-stitching I did on the two! Once I buy more matching thread I can finish it up and see if my experimental tartan recovery was a success too!

[Arlen]

Nice!
I think this will make a fantastic box pleated kilt.
Go for it!

[Jerry]

I don't think it counts as cheating on the hiatus, since you already had this kilt, you're just fixing it.

Try telling that to Microsoft when you are "fixing your computer", but I am looking forward to seeing the results. I have an old Sportkilt in desert camo(given to me) and I'm considering ripping out the elastic and velcro, and then reusing the fabric for an Xkilt.

[Brian F]

The finished product on this thing is going to look nice (thanks to a two-hour phone conference with Alan) but because of school, internship, and other stresses, I find myself with little time to pleat and sew lately. Hopefully by Spring Break.

~Yeti