Measuring a youngin... room to grow?

[Geoff Withnell]

RockyR,

Thank you, I think that is essential what I am going to try and do, build is a little room for expansion to try to have this kilt last him as long as it can, and then later we will have a new kilt made. We are having 30 meters woven, so hopefully there will be enough left later when he is ready for a new kilt.



Goeff,

What ways have you found to use the left over materials? My Fiancée intends to use some of the extra material to make a duvet cover for our bed, as well as incorporate some of the material into her dress. We are also likely to make ribbon ties for the wedding bouquets and flowers from the material as well. But I'm curious what other ideas are out there.

Michele - my wife and co-conspirator in various Celtic doings even though she does have a discernible drop of Celtic blood in her veins - has made various ribbon backings for broaches, sashes, hair ribbons, etc, etc... She likes to have a bit of Davidson about her person any time we are somewhere where I am wearing Davidson and "representing" as a Davidson Clan member. E.G. Burns dinners, Highland Games, S.A.M.S. events and so forth. She has also made herself several tartan skirts. She is planning on retiring from nursing in about a year, and we may set a business with her making tartan skirts (not kilts).

[Barb T]

....not kilts, she says kilts are a male garment.

Please please - let's not start that argument/discussion again here..... ;-)

[Geoff Withnell]

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[ForresterModern]

You might want to contact Bonnie Heather Greene who crafted a Dutch Friendship Tartan kilt for my then 3 year old son (aka "The Boy") that was designed to be somewhat expandable for future growth, with a hem and some extra fabric left folded into a couple of the pleats somewhere. A couple years later we sent it back to have her "let out" the extra fabric she had left strategically in and he got at least another year or so of use out of it before one more growth spirt left him either wearing a rather attractive miniskirt or pulling a serious "sag and bag" underwear showing low waist band look. So about a year ago (when he was 7) we had it retired along with his original infant kilt.

I can only imagine that a 12 year olds kilt would be larger to begin with and, depending on your family history of overall height and late growth or the lack thereof, would be easier to perform the same kind of magic with for a longer more durable and endurable design and build without sacrificing much. But Bonnie may have a few ideas. After ours being her first attempt at making a "growable" kilt, I remember her distinctly saying that the process of building ours led her to several new ideas on how to do it better in future similar kilts.