Doubling over fabric

[ChattanCat]

Bossfrog, here are the pictures of my lined Maple Leaf:

Despite having finished it last fall, I really haven't worn it yet, so the basting is still in the pleats.

So, what is keeping you from wearing the kilt? What is different from the other kilts that you have made?

[Bugbear]

I keep pondering this. I prefer how fabric floats over non-fused interfacing like hair canvas and fleese in jackets. It's not the same with the kilt below the fell and steeking line as with the jacket, but I do wonder if there is a way to have the fabric of the pleats floating over, yet loosly atatched to an heavier interfacing of some sort...

I don't know that having an individual strip of hair canvas between each pleat, almost like those hanging window blinds, would work out.

[JimB]

I would recommend just doing the kilt without doubling the fabric. I think it will be thick enough in the pleat area. For the apron area just sew in a lining. I've done this with "starter" fabric when I was just learning and they worked out well. Several of which I've worn for several years now.

[Pleater]

I have used doubled material for costumes, where modern fabrics just don't move right when used singly.

I would have said that the best way to use it is not to bond it together but simply fold it - so the fold is used as the bottom edge, iron the fabric carefully, tack it along the top to make sure the two layers are exactly matched up and then treat it as though it was one layer.

The tacking will allow some small adjustment as the pleats are formed but should keep the two layers close to alignment.

I have mainly used the doubling technique on lightweight fabrics containing some percentage of wool, and they did bond together after washing and pressing as a garment, which the poly cotton will not do - even so I would leave it as two layers so as not to lose the natural movement.

Unless it is to be a kilt worn only indoors, or always with a top coat or cloak outside, such light material is going to fly very easily as a single layer - in anything above a Force 2 it is going to be up around the ears more than down around the knees, if my own experience is anything to go by.

Anne the Pleater

[Wompet]

[hijack]

So, what is keeping you from wearing the kilt? What is different from the other kilts that you have made?

Wally, the monster weighs more than my 18 oz Hunting Stewart and almost as much as my 20 oz MacDonald. This is most definitely a cold weather kilt. Given the quality of the PV outer layer, it will probably be reserved as a knockaround kilt, so my heavyweight wool kilts got more wear this winter. [/hijack]