If I were to write out directions, who would make a mini-kilt?

**ccga3359** · 9th April 07, 06:46 PM

If I made one my wife wouldn't wear it and I'm sure as hell 'aint. I'd have to do a full shave! Having said this I think if you had the time to author such a thing that people would make one. I've still gotta get my butt in gear to make my X-Klt variant but I spend so much time on X-Marks and my digi camera isn't working...

**Livingston** · 9th April 07, 07:22 PM

I'd be tempted and my wife would probably wear a hostess length one, if that was an option.

**Kiltman** · 9th April 07, 09:28 PM

I'm in, thanks.

**Celtic Amazon Goddess** · 10th April 07, 12:31 AM

I'll make one !!!!!

**Abax** · 9th April 07, 07:30 PM

I'll make one and post pictures. My wife would definitely wear one. Could I also modify the pattern to mid-calf length? (That might take some type of slit between pleats to allow easier walking, eh?)

I think this would be a good project before I tackle a kilt. I've sewn lots of utility items for models (kites, a hot air balloon envelope, sails, airplane covering) and all sorts of bags and covers, so I won't have any problem with a sewing machine. We finally replaced the 1950's Singer my mom gave me a few years ago, so I'm set there.

Cheap fabric? I think I can risk a few yards of the good stuff for my wife

Abax

**RK-REX** · 9th April 07, 07:52 PM

Well it just so happens that when I was back home this past weekend I dug one of Grandma's old sewing machines out of the barn. A very heavy duty Japanese made Singer knock off called a Wizard that was sold by Western Auto. I just did a tune up on it and it purrs like...well, like a sewing machine and it is built heavy enough to sew sheet metal. I just need a project and some supplies.

I'd be happy to make one and post my work. I'm thinking something in pink vinyl with black stitching.

Something that would look good on a 32" inseam with knee high 21 eyelet Doc Martens.

**morrison** · 10th April 07, 12:40 AM

I've been carryin' a hankerin' fer a sewin' machine. If only I had a few more dollars. Aww phooey! If I had a few more dollars it'd probly go toward a kilt 'nsted of a sewin' machine!

**ccga3359** · 10th April 07, 01:56 PM

Originally Posted by morrison

I've been carryin' a hankerin' fer a sewin' machine. If only I had a few more dollars. Aww phooey! If I had a few more dollars it'd probly go toward a kilt 'nsted of a sewin' machine!

If you buy a man a drink, he'll be drunk tonight,
If you teach a man to brew...
he'd be very happy tomorrow, or something like that.

**ccga3359** · 10th April 07, 02:45 PM

From the XMarks header;

X Marks the Scot is an international community of kilt wearers and those who encourage the wearing of kilts. Kilts are a man's garment and it is our goal to promote the wearing of the kilt in more than just the "Highland Games" situation.

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Alan, I'll respect your decision but I have to ask of those who've made an X-kilt, if making one has ever prevented them from buying a kilt from one of our sponsors?
I for one have used a sewing machine. I could most probably whip of an X-Kilt that would be acceptable to wear in general public. Yet currently I have two kilts on order. $500 I can actually ill-afford right now, yet I want properly and professionally made top quality kilts. Yes I could make half a dozen X-Kilts and by the fifth or sixth they would most definitely be a marked improvement over the first and yet that would still not prevent me from purchasing from a professional kilt maker in the future.
I realize that the X-Kilt is a contemporary kilt and that none of our sponsors make a product even similar to the design. But this garment was designed to be easy to build. The style of the X-Kilt is similar in looks to that of a kilt manufacturer that is not a sponsor here but I highly doubt that any X-Kilts made by our members have even cut into the sales of that same manufacturer.
So comes the kilted skirt that, obviously, has raised the concern of someone or even some people. I must ask, bearing in mind that, these plans have not even been drawn up yet! Just whom these skirts would be competing with? How much of this sponsors product line is even kilted mini skirts? Just as the X-Kilt competes with no sponsor's product, perhaps this new skirt design will compete with no sponsors current product. After all this skirt is from the same drawing table and mind as the X-Kilt.
But Alan goes on to say that this manual was given approval. So then can this indeed be correct that a forum that is all about encouragement of the kilted lifestyle must stop short of encouraging another to build his or her own kilt? I, for one, cannot see how this the dissuading of DIY encouragement is beneficial to this forum.