So yesterday I washed the black bull denim that I bought last week and got going on the solid black kilt that I've been missing from my "kollection" ever since I sold my old (very old) solid black Stillwater Standard.. It's a full-width apron, 6 yard, reverse kinguisse kilt with 20, 5.5 inch deep pleats and 1.25 inch pleat reveals. What got me going was seeing the solid black NeoKilt that one of the judges was wearing at Pleasanton.

I used a lot of X-Kilt techniques like drawing out the pleats straight on the material with chalk. No kilt of mine is ever done exactly according to the book, I ALWAYS experiment with something and this kilt is no exception. After looking very closely at a couple of Freedom kilts on Friday night, I had an idea about offsetting the pleat tapers above the fell. I did it to the left side of the back of the kilt first, and lo and behold....no "fell tilt". Of course I then went and put in the "fell tilt" adjustment on the WRONG SIDE of the pleats on the right side of the kilt, thereby doubling both the tilt and the stairstep effect at the fell so I have to rip out 10 pleats, but that's what whisky is for.

I am considering putting in a killer-diller waistband like Steve Ashton does on the Freedom kilts, but Steve has killer-diller industrial machines that laugh at any fabric and Joans little Husquevarna kind of doesn't. So we will see.. I will definitely put in an under-apron pocket.

Oh, and there will be a surprise finishing touch on this kilt, courtesy of the Kilted Kurmudgeon, but............ you'll see. . Black kilts don't photograph well on the table, and besides Joan has the digital camera, so no pic's until it's done.