Kilt #2 Leslie Tartan

[djmacnyc]

Hi All,

Here's a couple pix of the second hand-stitched kilt I've made so far, this one for a good friend who's notoriously camera shy. Thus, the kilt only modeling pix.

I'm feeling quite a bit more confident now and ready to tackle my most ambitious project, yet,... have been learning to make hand made kilts in order to make a kilt from my own family tartan (MacArthur) - fabric that I actually spun, plied the yarn, dyed, and wove into kilting cloth over the last 3 years, or so. It's a long story that I won't bore you all with, but this is the final stretch, at last. I hope to finish it up around new year's! Will keep you posted.

Hope all your holidays are warm and merry.

Best,
Doug
NYC


Leslie Tartan

[artificer]

Hi All,

Here's a couple pix of the second hand-stitched kilt I've made so far, this one for a good friend who's notoriously camera shy. Thus, the kilt only modeling pix,


Leslie Tartan





I'm feeling quite a bit more confident now and ready to tackle my most ambitious project, yet,... have been learning to make hand made kilts in order to make a kilt from my own family tartan (MacArthur) - fabric that I actually spun, plied the yarn, dyed, and wove into kilting cloth over the last 3 years, or so. It's a long story that I won't bore you all with, but this is the final stretch, at last. I hope to finish it up around new year's! Will keep you posted.

Hope all your holidays are warm and merry.

Best,
Doug
NYC

beautiful work, and I can't WAIT to see the whole-custom-spin/dye/weave/kilt job!

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[Tartan Tess]

It looks great!
I like the way you did the white stripes on the edge of the pleat.
I am making a Leslie tartan kilt now also, but I only have 3 pleats done so far.......

[djmacnyc]

It looks great!
I like the way you did the white stripes on the edge of the pleat.
I am making a Leslie tartan kilt now also, but I only have 3 pleats done so far.......

Thanks! It actually looks better in person, than in these pix. The lighting can sort of obscure the white lines a bit. Next time I would probably try and keep them to the outside edge of the pleats only. I thought I'd balance them here - one inside edge, one outside for symmetry sake, but the inner ones can tend to recede visually, depending on the angle/lighting. Live and learn.

Although, I'm not really sure I could have moved that element over into the adjacent pleat and still keep the same proportions in the stripes. Deciding which element goes where and pleat size can make me go cross-eyed, when initially planning out the pleats. I usually make a scan of the fabric and plot it out a few times, then go with the plot I like best.

[denmcdough]

Great job! Your friend is lucky!!

[Tartan Tess]

I centered my white stripes on the pleat but i like your idea better.
That darn block of dark green with the blue stripe thru it was hard to see to line up straight. I had every light on in the house last night to see it and gave up thinking i will try again in daylight....but alas, woke to find our power was out and dreary skies. Got it done finally.

[piperdbh]

That looks like a well-pleate kilt. Now if you only had some hand-knit hose to wear with it.