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[UmAnOnion]

That's the way to do it!! If anyone wants quick instructions on how to baste a kilt, let me know.

Barb

I finished a blackwatch i have been working on for a while and took it to the cleaners - had basted down all the pleats just how i wanted them pressed & thought that would be enough...

somehow one of the basting threads came loose & one pleat is out of whack - wont take much to get it back in line But I am annoyed that i have to do it after making sure they were all stiched down in the first place, as i am wearing the thing thuirsday eve to a work party to win a few bets and dont have much free time between now & then to press the pleat back into its rightful place AAARRRGGGHHH!!!



Barb, can you issue a pamplet to be giving to the drycleaners when dropping off kilts on how to handle the damned things properly??? pretty please with tartan sugar on top???

[sorcererdale]

I am not sure if this applies, but for my Survival from UK, I wash normally, with nothing else and do NOT use the dryer. I hang the survival on a two clip hanger from each side. The kilt is snapped back together and while it is hanging, I grasp the pleat and pull gently downward while curving the outside pleat edge in slightly. I let it air dry inside or outside, and then I repeat the process every couple hours until dry and then I do not have to iron it. My Survival's pleats stay in shape better than the Mocker from UK, but I do the same process for that.

DALE.

There is no way that I would wash a kilt - it is dry cleaning almost every time, and even then, only when absolutely necessary. Of all the 59 kilts in my Kollection, the only ones to have been washed are my Workman's Utilikilts. These get muddy from gardening, so a quick wash freshens them up nicely - but they require a lot of careful ironing after almost every wearing!

[Retro Red]

If anyone wants quick instructions on how to baste a kilt, let me know.

Barb

My favorite way to baste a kilt is to slather the kilt with my favorite sauce & repeat this process every 10-15 minutes until done. Your kilt will always turn out moist & flavorful this way!
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[billmcc]

If anyone wants quick instructions on how to baste a kilt, let me know.

Barb

I would like to know how to baste a kilt. I just bought an Irish American 5-yard wool kilt and I think repressing it would improve its appearance.

[mudd]

My favorite way to baste a kilt is to slather the kilt with my favorite sauce & repeat this process every 10-15 minutes until done. Your kilt will always turn out moist & flavorful this way!
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That's just what I was thinking.

[mbhandy]

My favorite way to baste a kilt is to slather the kilt with my favorite sauce & repeat this process every 10-15 minutes until done. Your kilt will always turn out moist & flavorful this way!
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After that doesn't it stick to the Iron???? :confused:

MrBill

[auld argonian]

You're reminding me of an old movie that I remember where a starving artist type flipped his electric iron over, propped it up and made a grilled cheese sandwich on it.

Yum!

Best

AA

[GlassMan]

You're reminding me of an old movie that I remember where a starving artist type flipped his electric iron over, propped it up and made a grilled cheese sandwich on it.

Yum!

Best

AA

In college we weren't allowed toasters or toaster ovens in our rooms and I got very inventive about cooking with my electric iron! I heated poptarts, toasted bread, I even figured out a way to line the top of the iron with aluminum foil, create a lip around the edges and cook up an egg!

[UmAnOnion]

In college we weren't allowed toasters or toaster ovens in our rooms and I got very inventive about cooking with my electric iron! I heated poptarts, toasted bread, I even figured out a way to line the top of the iron with aluminum foil, create a lip around the edges and cook up an egg!

And was anyone surprised that you became a fire fighter after that???

[Kilted KT]

sounds like most college experience I've heard of or experience myself. It is amazing what you can to in efforts to justify saving money to go to the local tavern in search of "distraction".