Jonesing & needing some advice

**mbhandy** · 16th March 06, 11:31 PM

Nice Tartan John,

Hemming a Cilt for a child you could do by hand or if you have a machine from the look of the tartan you could use a black thread.

MrBill

**GMan** · 17th March 06, 11:19 AM

Can't help you with the hemming question. Yet that is a nice lokking tartan, your son will look mighty fine.

**Big Dave** · 17th March 06, 11:23 AM

Don't worry about hemming it's not that bad. I'm very much looking forward to buying my son his first cilt when he's a little older (he's only 14 months).

**LoftGuy** · 17th March 06, 11:34 AM

Hi,

Great tartan; in my experience, I'd not shorten the hem too permanently as a 4 year old will grow so fast you'll soon have to lenghten it.

BTW, great starting him out with a kilt at 4 years of age.

Bob

**Barb T** · 17th March 06, 12:12 PM

I agree that it's easy to hem, and he'll look better if it's the right length (even if you have to let it down in a couple of months!). At Highland games, I see too many little boys in kilts that are a few inches too long, and they do look like they're wearing skirts....

Cheers!

Barb

**John M.** · 17th March 06, 12:25 PM

Yeah I just don't want it coming off looking like a skirt.

I thought I could just tack it with a stitch every inch or so across the apron & in the fold of each pleat then press it with the iron to make the edges crisp again. Then I could let it down and repress as needed after that.

Just thought I'd run it by those who have been there, done that.

Thanks folks.

**auld argonian** · 17th March 06, 01:38 PM

All of the intelligence that I've gathered about hemming a kilt with a set length is that there's this wonderful thing called a "blind hem stitch" that you can use. It can be done by hand or you can rig up a zig-zag type sewing machine to do it and put a little "helper" on the foot of the machine that holds the fabric folded over just right so that the machine can do the stitch. I found lots of reference on the internet about the blind hem stitch...it's pretty clever...check it out. Or just find a tailor or seamstress (or possibly a very obliging dry cleaners with an alterations department) and farm the work out to them.

It should look pretty cute...I've got the opposite problem: a teenage son who's 6'3" and has a 29 inch waist...even a 24" drop would probably be too short! He disappears real quick whenever I suggest that we get him a kilt before the next highland games, though....do you think that I should take that as a "no"?

Best

AA