Having worked the kilt the whole Saturday and a couple of hours today, my first X-kilt is now finished, and I've hung it out to dry. Tomorrow I will iron it once more (did already straight from the washing machine, I guess it'll help with the pleats), and see about taking pictures.

The kilt didn't turn out quite like I'd imagined. There are a couple of reasons for this:
1) the denim I used was too light and I couldn't get anything to stay put without a massive lot of pins, which I
2) didn't have enough of. This caused some problems, as you can imagine. I've still got fabric (and time) enough to make a second one, but before that I'm going to buy a whole lot of pins more.
3) I'm by nature quite impatient, so I just kept going at it, thinking, well this will be a practice kilt, it doesn't need to be perfect -> which led to me learning a lot by doing things wrong, which is the best way for me to ever learn anything. Next time I'll take more care.

The next post will contain pictures, I promise.