One of my recent kilts

[Ronusan]

I did this kilt a couple months ago but never bothered to take any pictures since I haven't had the opportunity to wear it out anywhere yet. The pattern is actually red, green, blue and yellow on black but the blue and red are so dark that you can't see them in most light...unlike the photo of it on the ebay listing! This was also my first kilt pleated to the stripe instead of the sett. Still lots of mistakes that I learned from and hopefully won't make on future kilts! The tartan is similar to a Cameron that I've seen but I don't know if it's anything specific, just a generic wool plaid from ebay as far as I know. Oh, and the hat is also my homemade glengarry!



And the all important shot of the pleats...

This is also the closest I've come to "the whole 9 yards." Because of how deep the pleats ended up being it came out to about 8 yards... a lot for a skinny guy like me. Which is why I have the glengarry instead of my usual beret in matching plaid... not enough fabric left!

[Cynthia]

Very cool -- both the kilt and the glengarry! I'm hoping to try making a few kilts sometime.

[Alan H]

Very nice job...**nodding**

[Arlen]

That's a fantastic job. Looks great. Goes well with the shirt!
What's the tartan name again? I know it's based on the Macdonald modern but I can never remember the name of that one. I always think it's Cameron.

[Jake_S]

Nice job on the kilt, and the tartan looks very nice also.

[sharpdressedscot]

I kinda like the tartan, so you just made that out of generic stuff, just a "random" pattern so to speak?

Pretty cool, man. Makes me wanna make my own, but I don't have the time nor the money, but I do have patience...

[Dirk Skene]

Very Nice, bro. Wear it with pride.

[Ronusan]

Thanks! I got the fabric on ebay for about $20 or $25 for the 4+ yards double width. They just listed it as "plaid" so I don't know for sure what official tartan it is, if any. At the time when I bought it I thought I had miraculously found the Cochrane tartan (my very distant, and only known Clan relation on me mudder's side). But when I compared closer I realized Cochrane had 2 sets of 4 red stripe groups together and not the 1 group of 4 that this has.

I'll look up the MacDonald tartans in my book when I get home and see if any match. I'd love to find out what all my different "generics" I've bought really are!

[James MacMillan]

Nice. I wish my talents allowed me to make a kilt. You guys amaze me.

[turpin]

looking good Ron. This is just an observation, and I'm no kiltmaker, but it looks in the pic as though you could have sewn the fell down a couple inches more. this would make the pleats hang straighter. They appear here to want to roll back on themselves.

Maybe a more qualified person will chime in and tell me I'm all wet. It's certainly better than any kilt I ever made....eh? What's that? Oh, right. I've never made a kilt.