Many of you might remember that I bought about 5 meters of the Maple Leaf tartan that Fraser and Kirkbright had for sale. The purpose of this purchase was to attempt to make a kilt using Barb's book. Of course the Maple Leaf is an asymmetrical tartan so a knife pleat is out of the question. So I have decided to make a box pleat kilt out of it..

With the fact that the book I have only covers the knife pleat variety, I decided to make a prototype kilt out of some fabric I got at Joanne's that has a similar sett size so I can work out the kinks.

Tonight was doing the math (yuck) and starting to uncover the secrets of the box pleat... Here is the pleats pinned in...



I do not intend to make a career of this, I would much rather pay Matt to do it for a couple of reasons, primarily is, he is the expert. But I did want to at least try my hand for kilts that I might want to kick around in and would not mind damaging...

So, what says the rabble?