The kitchen is done (yay!), so I've had opportunity to work on the kilt.

I think my previous sewing experience has me thinking backwords when it comes to kiltmaking. I do follow the book, but occasionally I fall into old habits. Like padding:




This is ten rows of padding, and I realise now the book asks for four... I don't know if I've "ruined" the kilt, but picking out six rows of padding won't take a lifetime. How say the experts among us?

Anyway, I've noticed the right side of the fell now looks like this:



i.e. a bit crooked, where they were straight(er) before pad-o-rama.

Otherwise I'm very happy with this:



and the under-apron edge is better after I smoothed out the curves a bit:



In other news: I'm in progress of slaughtering a sports coat that's always been to big - planning to re-use the interfacings and shoulder pads for my Prince Charlie coatee. Don't know yet if I can salvage the chest pieces, but the shoulder pads and armhole canvas are OK. And I now have some nice, black buttons looking for a new jacket... Maybe I'll get out my rulers and make myself an argyll pattern (giving up on finding a pre-made pattern).