Quote Originally Posted by Barb T. View Post
My book doesn't say to do that because my co-author is absolutely rabid about stitching without pins.
But Elsie does let us left-handed folk use a couple more pins than you right-handers.
I'm only on my eighth hand-sewn kilt now, so I'm no expert, but I do have a couple of suggestions:

  • There are a lot of steps in the book that can be done left-handed. You just have to change the orientation of the kilt from how it is in the book (e.g. top to the right instead of the left).
  • Make the kilt completely left-handed. A few of us have already done this. Other that the pleats facing opposite the normal direction, it will be the same as a normal kilt. Plus, this pleating direction works better when sitting in American cars.