Repleating an old kilt

[Ronusan]

That's funny, I'm in the middle of doing almost the exact same thing right now too! I loved the olive green based tartan I found for my first kilts but the ones I made then had some "issues." Luckily I didn't know about cutting out the back side of the pleats at the time so the fabric was still intact enough that I'm combining the two 2.5 yard knife pleat kilts I made (yes, the extremely reduced yardage should've told me I wasn't doing it right) into a single 4 yard box pleat. Took 3 days to carefully "unstitch" all the machine-stitching I did on the two! Once I buy more matching thread I can finish it up and see if my experimental tartan recovery was a success too!

[Arlen]

Nice!
I think this will make a fantastic box pleated kilt.
Go for it!

[Brian F]

The finished product on this thing is going to look nice (thanks to a two-hour phone conference with Alan) but because of school, internship, and other stresses, I find myself with little time to pleat and sew lately. Hopefully by Spring Break.

~Yeti