friends don't let friends make corduroy kilts...

[vorpallemur]

Great color! And the RevK lends itself nicely to corduroy, because you don't have to go against the cords when tapering.

I wish you luck with the hem, I'd have tackled that first before all the pleats were in place. When working cross-selvedge like that, I mark each piece separately so that seams are in the "gutter" of a pleat -- that is, hidden at the inside fold of a pleat. Of course that means finishing the raw edges inside with an overstitch, but my machine does that nicely.

Looking forward to the finished piece!

The reason I've not done the hem is that I don't know where it's going end up. I'm doing a "jeans waist". that puts the back an inch or two higher than the front. If you hem first, you end up with it longer in front than in the back. that looks a bit weird. If you hem last, you can mark using the floor as a reference point, and get a uniform hem. I considered doing it in pieces, like you suggest, but that's harder, and requires more fabric. With the narrow wales, the vertical seems are pretty invisible, and is worked out, only two of them are visible, and only about half of them show.

I just had a minor sewing miracle occur: I ran out of thread on the spool and the bobbin at the same time, and at the end of a seam! Of course, I can't find the second spool of thread I bought, so it's off to get more. I don't think I've used it already.

[sydnie7]

The reason I've not done the hem is that I don't know where it's going end up. I'm doing a "jeans waist". . .[snip]

I just had a minor sewing miracle occur [snip]

I haven't tried a "sloped" kilt -- Bob can wear his pretty level -- but I always figured to put the slope into the waistband rather than the hem. Otherwise you are hemming on a slant, which is OK on some fabrics but fairly noticeable on others (and a real no-no on tartan, of course!). The Wizard was going to reveal how he does it ("I'll discuss how to actually build Slope into the waistband of your Kilt in my next post") in this thread, but hasn't gotten there yet. Such a tease

Anyway, no need to wish you luck -- you've either got all you can use, based on the "sewing miracle," or that confluence of events has already used up more than you can ever gather!