X-Kilt: Sew Your Own, manual available for download

[Alan H]

Very easy to understand. Joined this website and 3 days later I'm wanting to sew a kilt?? Who knew?

And I get that the kilt is for men... but making myself clothes out of our family tartan to match is ok, right?? ;)

I actually wrote an X-Skirt manual, once, but it kind of died on the vine for lack of interest. This is in comparison to the X-Kilt which is a stupid-silly success story.

But the answer is yes.

[Alan H]

New Link for downloading the X-Kilt manual as of 2/14/2011:

http://cmgm.stanford.edu/~ahebert/Xk...t2ndedRevK.pdf

This is the second edition, which includes Tartan Hikers construction notes and sydnie's Reverse Kinguisse X-Kilt instructions, as well as a revised description of the part in the first edition that confused more people than all the rest of the manual put-together....the over-apron strip..

[CMcG]

You rock Alan H!

[dstarkravingmad]

I re-purposed an old set of BDU's because my son wanted a camo-Kilt

(Yes, he is the skinny one)


By dstarkravingmad at 2011-02-24

Pleats:


By dstarkravingmad at 2011-02-24

and I made some alterations and incorpoated the pockets at his request:


By dstarkravingmad at 2011-02-24

[Eleazar]

Excellent job. I like the added features.

[DaveMurray]

Buying the goods tomorrow, wish me luck!!!

[federkeil]

I'm in the process of making a red twill x-kilt with the selvedge showing on the bottom.

Just bar tacked the pleats at the fell but ended up 1-3/4" over my Rump measurement (48" Rump, 49-3/4" Measured cloth).

[DaveMurray]

You're pretty deep into it. You might be able to fudge it a bit at the end. I've only made two and I did them back to back and still "messed up" the second one, but was able to fix it in the end. Best of luck to you and your x-kilt!!!

[federkeil]

You're pretty deep into it. You might be able to fudge it a bit at the end. I've only made two and I did them back to back and still "messed up" the second one, but was able to fix it in the end. Best of luck to you and your x-kilt!!!

I didn't really mess up though, I gained 3/4 of an inch on the pleats by being off by 1/8th of an inch on some of them (which is within tolerance of the instructions), the other inch came from the "A" shaping of the apron (which isn't accounted for in the calculations).

If I need to I can always shrink the apron but if I wait till it's done I'd have to redo the tapering.

[Alan H]

Just shrink the apron by an inch, and don't worry about it! 3/4 of an inch of wiggle room around your rumpus is just fine.