Kilt making advice - Hawaiian fabric?

**Chas** · 30th November 10, 03:52 AM

Give paulhenry a PM. He has done this sort of thing before with great success.

Regards

Chas

**bubba295** · 30th November 10, 10:33 AM

Why not just a double layer of the same fabric? If the length of the kilt were short enough then it could be a matter of folding the material in half, but keep us posted please. I would like to see one in Hawaiian print.

**dutchy kilted** · 30th November 10, 10:37 AM

Do you pleat it to the stripe or sett?

**Whidbey78** · 30th November 10, 11:26 AM

Originally Posted by dutchy kilted

Do you pleat it to the stripe or sett?

Neither. It's pleated to the palm tree.

**piperdbh** · 30th November 10, 11:33 AM

Originally Posted by Whidbey78

Neither. It's pleated to the palm tree.

Aloha oy vey!

**BroosterB1** · 11th December 10, 09:05 PM

Originally Posted by Whidbey78

Neither. It's pleated to the palm tree.

I'd like mine pleated to the hula girl.

**Alan H** · 14th December 10, 08:01 PM

You could make a kilt from a more substantial fabric, but sew in strips of tropical pattern cloth such that they'd "flash" when the pleats opened.

Here's a picture of such a kilt that I made for Bethany Owen, one of the throwers here in Northern California. She has fabric with flames inside her pleats...yours would be Hawaiian print.

West Imboden, one of the throwers from southern California also has a kilt like this.