Here goes...X-Kilt attempt the first

[eponas-wild-daughter]

Ok so I figure now is as good a time as any!

I am a terrible procrastinator so I am starting this thread now to shame me into continuing my project whenever I see how long it's been since I started!

I hope to have this done in a week, maybe two. Most of my free time is at weekends as I work Mon-Fri during the day and provide free tutoring for Standard grade pupils several evenings a week so tend to collapse in a heap when I make it home at night!

Please note the photo below with all the essentials I could think of for kilt making; fabric, iron, needles, thread, chalk, measuring tape, X-Kilt manual (of course) and... a bottle of Morgans and the Prodigy's greatest hits!
The Prodigy is going on right now but I will count today a success if all my fingers are intact and that bottle of Morgan's is still closed by 5pm!

Please also note the use of a devil hat's horns as a pin-cushion, ingenious if I say so myself though I have after much deliberation decided not to wear it while it's in use. Also note the cat's scratching post and wall to wall carpeting - I have NO idea how I'm gonna keep this tidy but I'll try!

Wish me luck, and advice is welcome!

[Bugbear]

Good luck, and hope it comes out well.

[KFCarter]

Keep posting pics as you go and best of luck!

[twodog]

All the best, but I'm sure it will be great

[pdcorlis]

Looks like you are well provisioned for your adventure - please keep up posted!

[Alan H]

**grins**

You go, girl!

[eponas-wild-daughter]

Sigh...

Things are not going well - either my copy has a typo or I can't do math. The over-apron strip has been kicking my *** for a week (I just started chalking the pleats out today - seriously).

Can someone explain to me how a 3-inch wide strip of fabric can have a 2-inch wide strip of Velcro sewn onto it and still leave 1.25 inches at the top of the strip AND (going by the pic) what looks like around a half-inch at the bottom?

In the end I got so annoyed with the unpicking I decided to roll with it and my Velcro is now almost flush to the lower edge of the strip with around an inch at the top - is this OK?

Also...you know how I'm doing this by hand? Well thank god I'm using red fabric, I keep stabbing my fingers! Argh!

DISCLAIMER - I am not totally useless, things would have progressed farther but I also hemmed the strip and sewed half the Velcro on before I realised (DUH) that my strip was now only 2.75 inches wide and had to unpick and start again, so I have done a lot of sewing just most of it was useless and had to be undone. Also I am busy and teenagers a week away from their exams are demanding little monsters. Justification over - please help and try to think of me as not being a complete moron.

[Alan H]

Sigh...

Things are not going well - either my copy has a typo or I can't do math. The over-apron strip has been kicking my *** for a week (I just started chalking the pleats out today - seriously).

Can someone explain to me how a 3-inch wide strip of fabric can have a 2-inch wide strip of Velcro sewn onto it and still leave 1.25 inches at the top of the strip AND (going by the pic) what looks like around a half-inch at the bottom?

Go grab the new edition...I fixed all that!

And regarding the over-apron strip....in fact the whole thing except the measurements for pleat size and number and apron calculation....

The whole thing is a general guide, and while it's a pretty good assembly guide I'm sure that even the 2nd edition is not perfect. If you look at the instructions and something doesn't make sense, then try to suss out what I was getting at, and then do it YOUR way. I'm not sensitive! If you want to forget the whole velcro thing and close the kilt with a couple of buttons, then go for it! If you want to make a 5 inch wide over-apron strip, then nobody knows but you (though I wouldn't make a ten-inch wide strip, eh? There are limits).....

[JolyStNicholas]

Hang in there lady and you'll do well. Best luck

[Dan R Porter]

Is the morgans for drinking or pouring over the wounds?