Kilt Kamp 2015 - who's up for it?

[Barb T]

I haven't ever written anything on Kingussie kilts that's like the box pleat supplement, but it's really not that different from making any other kilt. If you already know how to make a knife-pleated kilt and a box-pleated kilt, it's pretty straightforward. It's really just a matter of visualizing the geometry of the pleats:



The layout can be a challenge, but you can get advice in this post I wrote:

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...t-woman-75461/

For a reverse Kingussie, you don't run into the "pile-up" problem because the underfold goes in opposite directions, rather than toward the center:

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...ie-kilt-84115/

As I said, it's just a matter of visualizing what the pleats have to do.

Once you lay out the kilt, you can stitch the pleats either like a box pleat or a knife-pleated kilt. If the pleats are wide, do it like the instructions in the box pleat supplement. If the pleats are narrow, you can stitch them like the instructions in TAoK. You just have to stitch half the pleats from bottom of the fell to top and the others from top of the fell to the bottom. See the following post for how to do the latter:

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...d-works-83767/