Kilt Kamp 2015 - who's up for it?

[Barb T]

Geez!!! NOT THE SAME ONES!!!!! oh, icky.

So, reading between the lines, not icky if we bought you a pair of your own? Done! I think Harlan and I could spring for a pair, sharing the extraordinary expense, of course, right Harlan? We'll be sure to get you a swell color!

[H. Hastings]

The check is in the mail!

[okiwen]

Very disappointed in you Barb. You're not helping. As an instructor and a pillar in the community, I would have thought that you'd recognized that Harlan is a not so very reformed Jr. High bully. All he needs is an audience, and he will act out. Is it not enough that you two have continued this sewing relationship without me? Now, you feel you must team up against me? Shame.

So, reading between the lines, not icky if we bought you a pair of your own? Done! I think Harlan and I could spring for a pair, sharing the extraordinary expense, of course, right Harlan? We'll be sure to get you a swell color!

[okiwen]

Too risky. Not sure that mere washing will get that much testosterone out. That man just oozes manly, it's awash over his shoes.

[Barb T]

See, doesn't it sound like, beneath all that bluster and protesting, he's secretly pining away for his _own_ tights? ;-)

[Pleater]

Oh yes - I just find it easier, being to some extent ambidextrous already to practise working right handed rather than to try to adapt everything to the left handed way I tend to work - if that makes sense.

Having seen people rendered almost helpless when they lost the use of their preferred hand it is something I have done for decades now.

Handedness is weird. In my twenties I was forced, by the design of the desk to work intensively on a keyboard putting in numbers, and I developed a stammer. It runs in the family - my grandfather was a natural lefthander forced into using his right hand and he had a speech impediment until wounded in the Great War, was taught to use his left hand and the stammer vanished. He was entirely ambidextrous after that.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

[Pleater]

Having tried out various methods of pleating I'd recommend the Kingussie kilt for the athlete, specifically a runner, as the pleats open out - flow out in fact, without much resistance and are best worn with a thigh length tunic. They are difficult to get lots of fabric into, and the centre back pleat is either a couple of short folds into the centre, or the folds are made the same width as the visible panel and folded over each other so there are 5 layers.

The reverse Kingussie style I now favour has the pleats folded the other way round, and it is suitable for cycling and walking - the pleats lie like the feathers on a bird's wing and so walking through scrub is easier.

Sewing these styles by hand is easier if you have some degree of ambidexterity, but I have developed some less than traditional methods of sewing to assist in the work. Perhaps it would be advisable to create a new thread in the DIY section - or wherever - to expand on the construction of mirror imaged kilt styles.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

[Barb T]

You don't have to be ambidextrous to stitch mirror image pleats. The thread that I mentioned above at

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

shows a very simple method for stitching the opposite-facing pleats while still stitching with the same hand and maintaining tension on the pleats.

[KiltedKnome]

So, reading between the lines, not icky if we bought you a pair of your own? Done! I think Harlan and I could spring for a pair, sharing the extraordinary expense, of course, right Harlan? We'll be sure to get you a swell color!

You know, there is this wonderful invention called "laundry". The tartan tights have actually been washed....... I believe the magic of this pair would not be diluted by soap and water, and therefore they should be passed on. Sort of like the "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants"..... One size fits everyone, and everyone looks good in them.