Kilt is too long

[Paul Henry]

You really have only two choices and the easiest is to hem the kilt. It should give a good result and be virtually undetectable

The other option is to remove the waistband, lining and canvas, extend the stitching at the fell, and then chop off the excess length at the top of the kilt. Effectively a re-build and not a job for the faint hearted or inexperienced

It so happens I am doing an alteration for a client where the the kilt was about 5 cm too long, we have decided on a hem, as a complete rebuild was just not realistic, in budget terms.
The trick is just to catch a thread or two from back of the kilt and to do a little back stitch into the hem to lock the stitch, don't work too tightly as the fabric needs to be able to move slightly when being repressed, and being inside the pleat the extra thickness needs to be able to slide slightly so that it doesn't appear to be bunching up. If one of threads goes over the hem edge(rather than under in an attempt to hide it) it helps to keep the extra fabric from catching.
I normally press the pleat first to give me a guideline to work to, and this kilt I decided to work to the black line , as it gave the front of the kilt a better appearance than to the the "open"
green square. It is a fairly time consuming job on an 8 yard kilt, but well worth it , to make the kilt fit better