I'm working on a kilt. It's a reverse Kingussie pleated x-ish kilt. I took what I learned from following Alan H's wonderful x-kilt guide (and the rev-K supplement, by whoever that's by. I forget, sorry!) and what I've learned from making a number. Then I've added the things that I think a useful practical garment requires: internal pockets for wallet, keys, llama, cell phone, and whatever else I need to carry around, plus the things that make it more comfortable to wear, at least for me, which include a lower rise, and a waistband that's higher in the back (and thus, lots of finishing hemming...). For perfectly sensible reasons, I decided I'd make this out of corduroy. I like cordoury. I like the corduroy kilts I've seen. For less sensible reasons, I'm using scarlet (it actually said "cinnamon" on the bolt, but the matching thread is labeled scarlet) 21 wale to the inch, 100% cotton fabric, that's only 41" wide. In my defense, I was going to use a much wider waled navy blue, part poly 60" wide fabric, but they didn't have enough. The cute sales girl convinced me that scarlet stuff would be okay -- I was worried it was too light weight, but she said she'd made a skirt out of a different color of it, and it was fine. Piecing the stuff together was a pain.

One of the fun things about corduroy is that the cords run the length of the fabric. So if you did the usual kilt-making thing of taking a length of fabric, and folding pleats into it, the cords would run horizontal. That would look odd, even by my own rather loose standards of couture. So you got to hack the fabric into kilt-length bits, and then sew the shorter bits together, selvage to selvage, to produce a wide enough piece to be useful. (The sensible way to do this, by the way, is to put a join in the middle of the center box bleat (or only box pleat, if you're doing Rev-k). then you can work on the right and left hand pieces of the kilt seperately. Needless to say, this is not what I did.) I joined 7 pieces of 41" wide fabric together, pressed the seams flat, top stitched the selvages down, and then took a month break. It turns out that if you have a thread that's an exact match for your fabric, and you're using nice cotton fabric, you will go blind trying to pick out a bad seam. This is encouragement not to make mistakes, let me tell you!
(Well, I did start figuring out the pleating several times, but I got confused, and kept having to start over. thus, the month break.) So, the other day, i worked out what I could do with my 287 inches of cordury (besides make a handy red carpet.) That's just an inch short of 24'. That's a long piece of fabric to deal with, it turns out. I had a fit of lazyness, and decided that I'd do the center box pleat, 9 uniform knife pleats on each side, with a 1.5" reveal, plus generous first and last pleats and aprons. A bit of math reveals that the pleats will thus be 4.5" deep, and overlap lots.

that's it pleated. The left hand side pleats are sewn down, the right ones are just folded.
I've done quite a bit more, but I'm tired, and don't feel like dealing with pics tonight. I should be able to get most of the rest done tomorrow (everything except the hem, as I'll need help to mark it. and maybe the waistband.) and I'll post pictures.