Making a skirt with a "flash 'o tartan"

**Alan H** · 4th February 08, 10:50 AM

I promised a skirt for a friend who lives up in Seattle. I was gonna have it for last summer Gig Harbor Renaissance and Fantasy Fair, but when the Frugal Corner material arrived, I concluded that it was WAY too light for what I had in mind. So that project went on the back burner.

Now that I've finished Panache's X-Kilt and TimC's X-marks box pleat, it's time to do her skirt. I went down to JoAnne's fabric and got some solid black cotton/poly twill and have folded up a nifty skirt. Last Monday I put in the over-apron, including some interfacing. I also marked all the pleat edges, and keeping in mind the lesson I learned from my LAST casual knife-pleat, went to some pains to make adjustments to the pleat edges in the fell.
today I took and hour and a half and pinned in the 20 pleat tapers. It'll take about 40 minutes to sew them in, either tomorrow or next monday.

I plan to use the Frugal Corner tartan for the inside of the reverse pleat, much like how Neokilts does it (http://www.neokilt.com/custom.html...see the first kilt on that page, upper right.) That way I get to use the material I bought, but she gets a more substantial skirt than if I made it entirely from Frugal Corners material. I think the "flash of blue" that the skirt will have from the Clarke tartan, against it's mainly black coloration will look good.

Hopefully she will send along a pic or two when it's done and I send it off to her.

**SFCRick** · 4th February 08, 11:43 AM

That looks great, my wife wants one

**cloves** · 4th February 08, 01:12 PM

one step closer to my x-kilt....... *runs and hides*

**idyllicchick** · 5th February 08, 05:01 AM

That sounds fabulous! Can't wait to see (And recreate) it!

**Alan H** · 5th February 08, 10:35 AM

Sewed in the pleat tapers today, that took about 35 minutes. Nothing like pinning everything in place before you start. Next up is putting in the tartan "reverse pleat"