pinstripe kilts...any kiltmakers on board tackled one?

[cloves]

Welshman...great first post! Thanks for the suggestion and welcome to the board!

[Pleater]

Having made a couple of kilts with stripes, the fabric has to be cut from selvage to selvage to have the stripes vertical on the kilt, but it is a fairly easy make as you can count stripes and then shuffle them to get the joins in the best places, rather than having to measure and pin and remeasure and repin which is a possibility with a plain fabric.

The striped kilts caused me to fold and press the pleats one by one before sewing, in order to get the edge exactly on a thread where there was a colour change on the fold. with no other pleat or any sewing to interfere I found that it was a good idea in general.

With a non wool fabric stripes work well as it removes some of the problems with maintaining the horizontals - you still have to get the top and bottom to look level but the pattern doesn't reveal where anything in between doesn't quite match up due to the rigidity of the fibres.

The necessity of a hem due to the way the fabric has to be cut can also assist in disguising any problems with a rigid fabric.

I'm afraid I am too distant to be of much use in the actual making of a kilt, but it is not a process fraught with problems and difficulties so I hope that you can find someone to make it for you.

Anne the Pleater :ootd: