X-Marks Tartan for My Son

[SnakeEyes]

I'm definately looking foreward to pictures... of the lad's kilt, I mean. Not the mini-skirt... yes...

[McMurdo]

Cant wait to see it I am sure Sinbad will love it.

[The F-H.C.A.G.]

Here are some pics:

The Tartan



Pleated (it took a while to get here)



A close up-such a pretty tartan



Now I'm working on the waistband-trying my best to perfectly align the tartan on the apron-I'll post further when I get further time to work on this.

Be well,

[sjrapid]

Thanks for this, F-H.C.A.G.

Please, please, post lots of pics as you go along. I'm about to start making a kilt for a nephew, and need all the guidance I can get.

Could you tell us the size of the sett of your run of the tartan and also the measurements you're making up to, so that I can get some idea of scale in your pleating pic?

Many thanks

[Fearnest]

Amazing! Thanks for the pictures - please keep them coming!

[The F-H.C.A.G.]

...need all the guidance I can get.

Could you tell us the size of the sett of your run of the tartan and also the measurements you're making up to, so that I can get some idea of scale in your pleating pic?...

Please don't look to me for too much guidance-for example, I didn't measure anything-I just held the material up to the boy, pinned a set of pleats while eyeballing it, held it up again, removed all the pins and started again-repeating until it looked good and the apron had a sett fairly well centered.

I'll go measure now...

The sett on this run of tartan is 7 inches. I believe the new run is going to be somewhat larger.

As laid out above, there are 32 inches, pleated down from about 116 inches of material. It is 17 inches long, and I am going to fold the waistband over the top-so will not be adding any length. To be honest, I don't know how deep the pleats are-I just kept redoing them until they looked right. Let's measure...3 1/2 inches. Also, there is no taper to this kilt, since 6-year-olds don't have hips or "rumps" so much. I have no clue how to taper-but I will learn someday soon.

This is how I have always sewn-I don't know the terminology, either for sewing in general or kilt crafting, and I generally just grab an example of what I want to make and deconstuct it to figure out how it is done. As a result, I am a rather poor instructor. "I just worked on it until it looked right" is not exactly a useful answer to "How did you make that?". Apparently, Panache does his woodworking in the same way-sorry AlanH and W2F-your sgian dubhs may be a long time coming.

Still, I will continue to post my progress (and set-backs) here.

Be well,

[Dreadbelly]

I'd like to take this chance and nominate this woman for mother of the year.

[ccga3359]

I'd like to take this chance and nominate this woman for mother of the year.

Second. What does she win?

[Dreadbelly]

A free drink from any XMarker she meets? I dunno.

[cessna152towser]

Looking forward to seeing pics of the Xmark tartan clad family.