A problem came up recently. I was working on a kilt for a very tall man with a kilt length of 27". The tartan was 55 1/2" double width. After cutting the two 27" lengths, there was only 1 1/2" left of the weft length, which is too narrow for a top band. Yikes! What to do???
I ended up machine double-stitching two lengths of the 1 1/2" weft strips together to make a 2 1/4" seamed strip for the apron part of the waistband where the tartan pattern needed to line up. Then I joined a length of warp for the underapron and back. Luckily it worked, but just barely.
What do kiltmakers do in such a situation? Advice would be very much appreciated!

...bonnie heather