I'm making a pair of cadagh

**Pleater** · 7th December 09, 06:59 PM

You should find that the bias cut fabric will be very elastic - it works entirely differently from fabric cut on the grain.

If you make them too loose you might find that they make uncomfortable folds around your leg - I suggest temporary seams and a few trial wearings around the house to achieve a good smooth fit.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

**Alan H** · 7th December 09, 08:09 PM

Originally Posted by Pleater

You should find that the bias cut fabric will be very elastic - it works entirely differently from fabric cut on the grain.

If you make them too loose you might find that they make uncomfortable folds around your leg - I suggest temporary seams and a few trial wearings around the house to achieve a good smooth fit.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

I might opt for two pair. 1: the baggy type....see the opening scenes of Rob Roy, as the men are climbing up beyond the tarn. You'll get a look at the leggins they're wearing.

2: something a little more fitted...which might require exactly what you just suggested.

**jhockin** · 7th December 09, 09:24 PM

Alan:
just in case you didn't already

re-read it:

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/c...x.html?t=22033

( fluter beat me to it by 1 minute! )

**fluter** · 8th December 09, 04:40 PM

Originally Posted by jhockin

Alan:

( fluter beat me to it by 1 minute! )

Great minds, y'know!

**Alan H** · 14th December 09, 12:47 PM

All Done.... That wasn't too hard.

**Smayniac** · 14th December 09, 01:33 PM

Those look pretty good Alan. I may have to try that with some of my grey leftovers.
Bob

**Alan H** · 14th December 09, 02:52 PM

Anne and String...what I did was figure that my shin was pretty much straight. OK, so for the front part of the leg I just folded the fabric over, trying to center the fold on the middle of the "diamonds" (they'd be squares if the fabric were oriented horizontally) of the plaid pattern. I then took one of String OUtrageous Kilt Hose, which she (clever girl that she is) made to fit my leg with minimal stretch, and lay it flat, sideways, on top of the material. Then I traced the outline of the hose, adding an extra inch or so, and maybe a bit more than that around the ankle with chalk, and pinned.

This mean that there was no "foot" part of the sock, but I figured I'd deal with that, later.

Then I cut out the "shin" part of the cadadh, and fuddled around at the bottom such that I thought I could get my foot out of the things and pull them up, when I finally tried putting them on. I ran a line of loose stitching along the chalk mark that would run right down the back of the calf, and cut it out, leaving a *quite* generous (at least an inch) allowance in case I had to make them bigger.

I then put them on and pulled them off several times, adjusting here and there and noticed that as I did so, the material stretched a bit. What was very difficult to get on the first time, became only slightly tight by the fifth or six time.

When I had the shins right, I trimmed down the excess along the back of the calf and double-zig-zagged to serge the raw edge.

I then just got creative with the scraps and cobbled together something that I could zig-zag onto the bottom, that made the foot bag. The line of stitching that attaches the foot part to the shin part is lost in the bunched-up material on the top of the foot/ankle junction. It's there, you just don't see it.. I actually don't have a seam down the bottom of my foot. That single seam stops about 2-3 inches in front of the turn of the back of the heel, and I have a V shaped, sort of gusset in there so that the single seam along the bottom splits to accomodate the gusset. I added another piece for the bottom of my foot so there are actually two seams out on the sides and there's a single piece of fabric along the bottom of my foot. Ditto for the top. It's not pretty, but it's inside the shoe and nobody sees it, right?

Up at the top by the knee I took some material and oriented it horizontally for the "fold over" under the knee. I just tucked under a raw edge and hemmed it, and made a circle. I stitched the circle inside the uppermost part of the leg, and the raw edge is hidden by the fold-over. I wish I'd make them an inch wider, but they're fine, as is.

It's worth noting that this material is NOT kilting tartan. It's a wool blend...I think nylon....that happened to be a plaid even though it's not twill and it happened to have similar colors to the base colors of my Great Kilt. It was on deep sale and I figure I couldn't lose for $4.50. I would guess that this stuff is a bit more stretchy than kilting wool.