Sarong?

[andycwb]

Using a stitch ripper or (carefully) scissors and snipping through each baste and then removing is much safer for the kilt.

Having not read any other advice on this that's what I did. I used the scissors because I knew I wouldn't pull the threads at all that way. What I noticed is the line where they basting stitches were removed was invisible at the time, quite noticeable a few days later, and has become less visible again over time.

But of course this does not help our Robgiv and his swing...

And now to return to the main thread of this evening's symposium, as Tom Lehrer might have put it.