Black Stewart pleated to the stripe

**English Bloke** · 6th January 09, 09:55 PM

Looks great actually.

Cessna152towser posted a pic of similar kilts on a Christmas in Scotland thread recently. If I were getting Black Stewart that's how I'd prefer it.

cessna152towser...

**tomcherv** · 7th January 09, 06:34 AM

I have a Black Stewart kilted to the stripe as well, but I chose the narrow blue stripe. From the back, my kilt looks mostly black and shows flashes of red.

That's one of the mysteries of pleating to the stripe. You can really change the look of the kilt by which stripe you choose.

**Mipi** · 7th January 09, 06:40 AM

It looks very much like my that I made. But I had to leave a bit of black on pleats, while I had only 6m of material to work with.

**English Bloke** · 7th January 09, 06:57 AM

Originally Posted by tomcherv

... I have a Black Stewart kilted to the stripe as well, but I chose the narrow blue stripe. From the back, my kilt looks mostly black and shows flashes of red...

I bet that looks pretty awsome too. Have you got a picture?

**csbdr** · 7th January 09, 08:29 AM

WOW!! that is cool. I'm pretty new to tartan kilts and constantly amazed/amused by things like this.

**Tartan Hiker** · 7th January 09, 02:16 PM

Originally Posted by Phogfan86

I wish the pleats were sewn to the fell rather than just at the waist, but my seamstress sister says she can take care of this easily enough in exchange for lunch with her loving brother.

Be cautious. This kilt has no taper from fell to waist. When you sew the pleats down in that area you'll probably find that it becomes too tight across your rear. You can ease the edges out a bit (creating taper from the waist down as it were) but repressing may be necessary. I'd suggest testing on the first five or so pleats on one side before investing the time to do them all...you may decide to just leave it as is.

**Thebigeman77** · 7th January 09, 05:50 PM

O I realllllllllllllllllly like that pleated to the stripe... wow.

**Bart_In_A_Kilt** · 13th January 09, 08:03 PM

Originally Posted by tomcherv

I have a Black Stewart kilted to the stripe as well, but I chose the narrow blue stripe. From the back, my kilt looks mostly black and shows flashes of red.

That's one of the mysteries of pleating to the stripe. You can really change the look of the kilt by which stripe you choose.

I would like to see a pic of this as well. I Have the 8 yards of the Stewart Black purchased, and have not decided how to knife pleate it yet. Having seed the red stripes. I'd like to see an example of it pleated to the blue stripe.

Bart