I've been planning this project for a long time, but only now all the required parts have come together: nice cloth, enough time, agreement from my wife that she won't be needing the sewing machine for a couple of days (she´s studying to be a handicrafts teacher so she uses the machine a lot) - and of course, a loaded camera battery.
I bought the cloth a year ago, so I've had good time to get familiar with it and envision the possible uses. It's a dark blue / "light indigo" gabardine, 5m x 1,20m in size. So, a lot of material to work on.
I've made two X-kilts and one knife-pleat kilt, so now I decided to do something a bit different. If I've understood correctly, the term "Reverse Kingussie" refers to a pleating where lots of knife pleats surround one box pleat in the back. This is what I set out to do.
At first, let me present the legendary Swedish sewing machine, Husqvarna 2000, that has served my family for nearly 40 years, and still goes strong.
Then, the cloth. This is a rather close look, with 1,5 inches showing.
"Well planned is half done." So, I had a plan, and it looks like this:
Contrary to my previous kilt projects, I began this one with hemming the cloth. I figured that, as there's a chance of mismeasuring the length, I will buy some more time with this. And I think this was a good decision, (even though the sewing looks terribly askew in this close a shot).
Then I drew some lines. A tiler's square and a tailor's chalk helped a lot.
Then, the sewing began.
I got this far. There's the apron on the left, then six knife pleats and finally, a box pleat in the right end.
Then I got a look from our border-collie Valma, saying "What about me?"
To be continued...
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