Kiltmaking in Idaho

**HalfPint** · 24th November 11, 08:19 PM

Hello All,

I am here on a quest to make kilts for my husband and brother in law. I found you all by Googling "how to make a kilt", and found Alan H's excellent X-Kilt manual.

The kilts I will be making are contemporary, Utilikilt-style. I have my brother in law's UK to study and have successfully duplicated it (sans pockets) in broadcloth, just to learn the construction. And boy, have I learned a lot already! I am a pretty accomplished seamstress, but this is half sewing and half engineering.

Now that I have the steps of construction under my (kilt) belt, I am running into the problems of fit. I need to learn more about "the beer gut cut" and wish Steve's book would be published already!

Thank you all for the information I have already gleaned from this site - I am very impressed by y'alls sewing!

**Oddern** · 24th November 11, 11:24 PM

Warm welcome from Norway, the land of the vikings.
Skål!

**Mipi** · 24th November 11, 11:52 PM

Welcome! Stay around and learn.

**Chas** · 25th November 11, 02:14 AM

Hello HalfPint,

Welcome to XMarks from the other side of the Atlantic in Norfolk, England.

Regards

Chas

**davidg** · 25th November 11, 02:21 AM

from West lothian, Scotland

**McClef** · 25th November 11, 02:49 AM

from South Wales UK!

**TimButterfield** · 25th November 11, 03:48 AM

from Des Plaines, IL (near Chicago).

**Spartan Tartan** · 25th November 11, 04:45 AM

from Oklahoma!

**Peter Crowe** · 25th November 11, 05:32 AM

from a Scots expatriate now settled in Massachusetts.

**cruiser348** · 25th November 11, 06:01 AM

Hello and welcome from Ohio. For additional information another option is to get the book "The Art of Kilt Making" by Barb Tewksbury (a member of this forum). It is available through the Scottish Tartan's Museum gift shop, in a link near the top of this page.