Quote Originally Posted by sydnie7 View Post
No taper. . . I wonder.

There have been several discussions here about people who say that their rump and waist measurements are the same.

In reality, you probably have two circles of the same diameter (waist circle and rump circle) but I doubt that they have the exact same center in your body.

Try this -- imagine you are wearing p@nts, or actually put a pair on if you own them. Now measure from side seam to side seam around the FRONT of your waist. Then measure side seam to side seam around the REAR of your rump. This is about what your finished kilt hip measure should be, and I bet it is larger than you think. The aprons need to fall straight down from your navel toward the floor, not tuck inward under your belly.

I could be wrong, of course, but very few people are truly straight up and down with zero taper from buttocks to small of back.
sydnie7
yes, you are correct; there is a one inch difference, W&H. ..I guess I should have 'said' very little taper. Thanks for your tip - I'll try that & re-check my 'splits' - haven't started sewing just yet.

Barb:
thanks, your photo really helps!

- (quote: "I chose to retain the overall symmetry of the red and green undercheck by splitting the central khaki stripe in the green undercheck.")
- I'm guessing that the green you refer to is what I was thinking of as black, and the 'khaki' is what I was thinking of as 'beige', in the three stripes: gold, beige, & brown??
- (quote: " If I had only 8 yards, I'd probably still double the sett and have larger, fewer pleats, but I can give you some advice on that if you tell me how much tartan you have and what the hip measurement is for the kilt.")
- I have 4 meters ( and yes, it is F&K, 16 oz.dbl wide)( already ripped into two pieces) & hip measurement is 45". - sounding like your suggestion to make deeper & fewer pleats (rather than 35, using single repeats) is a very good idea. Just wondering what size your pleats ( in the photo) are/were ?
-(quote: "be sure to allow for the hem when you rip the width!!")
- yeah, I screwed up there, too! Already ripped hte material - missed that part in your book, (but, it is heavily underlined & notated, now ). So, there is an 'offset'. of about one inch, bwt the 1st & 2nd piece; I'm hoping I can compensate, for this, by (after making a narrow hem, to make the two pieces match) a wider waistband ( say 1>11/2 inches??)