2 new projects

**KiltedCodeWarrior** · 8th January 07, 01:26 PM

Well, my daughters have been wanting kilts of their own, and when they saw me working on the XKilt this past weekend, they really got excited and want one NOW! So I took the older one by Wal-Mart Saturday while Mommy and the little one were napping and got some fabric. My older daughter picked out the fabric for both of them. Here is what she picked all pleated up and ready to begin sewing the pleats:

And here is what she picked for her sister, who loves Dora. I just don't know what to pleat it to Dora or Boots??

**Colin** · 8th January 07, 01:28 PM

for the dora one, do 3-4 really big pleats, so that you don't have to lose either Dora or Boots

**JimB** · 8th January 07, 01:29 PM

That's a great project!
If it were me, I think I would pleat it to........oh shoot. I don't know

**auld argonian** · 8th January 07, 02:56 PM

Pay attention here, you younger un-married guys...THIS is a guy who's being a good dad. Go forth and do likewise.

Best

AA

**Splash_4** · 8th January 07, 03:00 PM

Man, how do you pleat a fabric like that? If she like Dora, pleat to Dora and have the bot peeking out of the pleats!

**Colin** · 8th January 07, 03:03 PM

Don't forget a mini "backpack" as a sporran

**BLAZN** · 8th January 07, 03:17 PM

Originally Posted by KiltedCodeWarrior

I just don't know what to pleat it to Dora or Boots??

lmao... I'd pleat to Boots... Dora annoys me! lol
I'm sure it shouldn't be too hard to have both Dora and Boots visible in the pleats.
My daughter would have picked the same material.

Originally Posted by Splash_4

Man, how do you pleat a fabric like that? If she like Dora, pleat to Dora and have the bot peeking out of the pleats!

The "bot" is actually a monkey named Boots. Very annoying 'toon.

**sjrapid** · 8th January 07, 03:54 PM

KCW, do you have any tips on scaling down the XKilt pattern for children?

[I've got a couple of 'honourary nephews' (sons of friends whose parents have decreed that I'm 'Uncle Steve') who keep hinting about kilts, after seeing my Gunn Modern plus full rig at Hogmanay]

Best regards

**KiltedCodeWarrior** · 8th January 07, 07:26 PM

Originally Posted by auld argonian

Pay attention here, you younger un-married guys...THIS is a guy who's being a good dad. Go forth and do likewise.

Best

AA

Thanks AA! The girls have been wanting kilts for a while, and when they saw me actually working on the XKilt, it was extreme excitement time.

Originally Posted by Colin

Don't forget a mini "backpack" as a sporran

Colin, that is an awesme idea! I had not though about that at all, but I should have enough to do that as well.

Originally Posted by sjrapid

KCW, do you have any tips on scaling down the XKilt pattern for children?

sorry Steve, I did not make these as XKilts. The first one, seen below, is a knife pleated to the sett (that's how it turned out, not how I planned it). I just split the cloth in half, left enough for an overapron, and began playing with different pleating. For a kitl this small, you can pleat up the whole thing in about 10-30 minutes by using the tartan lines to line it up. But oboy do pleats eat up fabric! I thought a yard would be plenty for my daughters, but I had to splice together a section for the first one.

**KiltedCodeWarrior** · 8th January 07, 07:29 PM

So here is the frst one! Not too shabby if I say so myself, and my wife was even impressed! And for those who have been married for a while, you know that it takes a lot more to impress your spouse after almost 20 years than the first 2-3 years!

Completed kilt:

Front of kilt with kitty kilt pin:

Close-up of pin:

Pleats: