Corduroy X-Kilt

[Frog]

Nicely done! So, Cloves will get it what, June, July (lol)? Must have been sheer torture, watching this!!

Frog

[Alan H]

I saw it.
I handled it.
I inspected it.

I even WORE it. (for about 15 minutes...it's a bit short on me)
I even danced with the seamstress, with it on.

NICE job....you're gonna love this, cloves!

[The F-H.C.A.G.]

For pictures-check out the soon to be started thread in Show Us Your Pics-March Belmont Kilt Night.

Here's a teaser



Be well,

[cloves]

sheesh, everybody's worn it (and got the pics of them doing it...cheeky!) except me. I thought it was hard watching it being made....now I gotta check out folks wearing it too....*whine whine whine*

for what it's worth...it looks good on you guys!

[Black Skot]

well done!

[Panache]

cloves,

Little Xena and I just got back from the Post Office.

Your kilt is on its way!

Cheers

Jamie

[cloves]

Wicked!! I'll let you know as soon as it arrives.

[string]

I have a few comments

1. I want to make a kilt now
2. Not doing so until I have my own sewing machine, currently I either hand stitch everything or borrow my mother's featherlight machine, which doesn't do anything but back and forward (and needs a new belt badly)
3. I still HATE corduroy, just touching it makes my stomach turn. I do not know why, but I have felt this way about it since I was little. It looks nice, and the lines make it easy to work with, but it takes all the willpower in my body to even hug my boyfriend when he wears it.
4. Shogun rocks, and I've read the book too.
5. since I hate making something for someone else the first time I attempt it, does the x-kilt have instructions for including a very drastic taper? like... 10 inches of taper.

[Alan H]

I have a few comments

1. I want to make a kilt now

5. since I hate making something for someone else the first time I attempt it, does the x-kilt have instructions for including a very drastic taper? like... 10 inches of taper.

The X-kilt is made with 3-inch box pleats as default, and I'd have to know your hip measurement to tell you roughly how many pleats it would have. However, making the wild guess assumption that you have hips around 42 inches, and since in the X-Kilt the pleats wrap-around the waist and up towards the front because the apron is narrow, I am going to GUESSTIMATE that you would have an X-kilt with 11 pleats. (It might be 10, it might be 12).

That would mean that the apron would be 9 inches wide. 11 x 3 = 33, and then 33 + 9 = 42.

Since you don't taper the first and last pleat in an X-Kilt (they're on your frontside, and the pleats drop down the fronts of your thighs), that means you have 9 pleats to work in 10 inches of taper. This is eminently do-able, though you may have a thick waistband when you're done. I usually work in a full inch of taper on the second and next-to-last pleats in an X-kilt, and often nearly that much in the 3rd and next-to-next-to-last pleat to build in lots of "wrap" to get the kilt to wrap around the sides of the wearers hips. You'd just continue to do that throughout the rest of the pleats.

Each pleat that was three inches wide at the hips would taper an inch, to about two inches wide at the waist. That's about the maximum taper, per pleat, tho.

[string]

The X-kilt is made with 3-inch box pleats as default, and I'd have to know your hip measurement to tell you roughly how many pleats it would have. However, making the wild guess assumption that you have hips around 42 inches, and since in the X-Kilt the pleats wrap-around the waist and up towards the front because the apron is narrow, I am going to GUESSTIMATE that you would have an X-kilt with 11 pleats. (It might be 10, it might be 12).

That would mean that the apron would be 9 inches wide. 11 x 3 = 33, and then 33 + 9 = 42.

Since you don't taper the first and last pleat in an X-Kilt (they're on your frontside, and the pleats drop down the fronts of your thighs), that means you have 9 pleats to work in 10 inches of taper. This is eminently do-able, though you may have a thick waistband when you're done. I usually work in a full inch of taper on the second and next-to-last pleats in an X-kilt, and often nearly that much in the 3rd and next-to-next-to-last pleat to build in lots of "wrap" to get the kilt to wrap around the sides of the wearers hips. You'd just continue to do that throughout the rest of the pleats.

Each pleat that was three inches wide at the hips would taper an inch, to about two inches wide at the waist. That's about the maximum taper, per pleat, tho.

Hmmm, This looks suspiciously like math, especially since I'm more like 36" at my widest point. oh and my usual method for pleating, which I refer to it as eyeballing probably won't work either. sigh