Here goes: Longhuntr Kilt #1

**Mipi** · 28th March 10, 11:20 AM

That's going to be very good kilt! Congratulations.

**chasem** · 28th March 10, 11:22 AM

looking fantastic! keep it up

**Kilted Carver** · 28th March 10, 02:12 PM

Gonna Be Snazzy!!
But we have to see more sir!!

**guitarmatt** · 28th March 10, 02:36 PM

Thanks for posting this. It's really interesting to watch it coming together.

**Eleazar** · 28th March 10, 03:12 PM

Very nice indeed! And with compliments from Barb as well. What a great experience.

**longhuntr74** · 28th March 10, 05:04 PM

In addition to the three pleats earlier in the day...I sat down tonight and did 5 more...Currently done with 16 pleats and the 17th is pinned and ready to sew. Hopefully I can get the pleats finished up tomorrow or Tuesday...only 6 to go.

**Kiltman** · 28th March 10, 05:33 PM

Thanks for the look over your shoulder. Looking forward to the finished product.

**WClarkB** · 28th March 10, 06:23 PM

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** · 30th March 10, 02:24 PM

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....