Here goes: Longhuntr Kilt #1

[WClarkB]

I am in the throes of the same material I got last year!
I will post shortly. However, I have elected to used just 2 yrds to venture into the box-pleated realm, still leaving me enough to do a tank in the future (I bought 7 meters). But then I have bought some maple leaf that needs kilting and I am lusting after some MacLellan.

It is indeed lovely stuff to work with and I think it may spoil you for "merely" 16 oz.

I salute a fellow addict of the same drug, wool.

[longhuntr74]

Well...as mentioned in my previous post...I got motivated and was making good progress. Well apparently I got so excited at the halfway point, that I jumped ahead a whole pleat. I had just finished stitching pleat #17 and stopped to admire my work (yeah...so I'm a little pleased with myself!!)...and when I happened to look at the backside of the pleats...I see a bunch of folds approximately 5" wide...and in the middle of them is this flap about 11" wide...hmmm.

Apparently I totally skipped pleat 12 and sewed pleat 11 to pleat 13. Oops!!!! So I had to unstitch that pleat and make it into two pleats...I like a challenge.

Well...I managed to get pleats 12 and 13 fixed...and then finished the pleats and stitched it to the underapron seam. So here are some pics of the kilt in it's current status:

A closeup - 22 pleats:

And just for the heck of it, I pinned it on!


Hope you like it so far. More pics to come....