Stabilizer for a StillWater

[Bugbear]

Well done, Ted!

I have a new Stillwater that I'm planning to take apart, so that I can cut out the pleats and add a stabilizer and canvas.

Based on the two kilts I have built, it seems pretty easy to tighten up the waistline by half an inch or so, when the stabilizer is installed. Hopefully that will make the waistline the most snug part of the fell. Stretching out the top of the pleats as the waistband is replaced should help, too.

I was just talking to someone through PM about that. I'll bump this thread with this, but I do think it is very possible to do exactly that. You would have to put the steeking at the bottom of the fell and a pleated hair canvas in the cutaway area. I am sure that you could use the instructions in Barb's book to do this.

I don't know the exact details of doing that, and I am not an kilt maker. That being said, you have about eight yards of wool, tartan fabric there; it has been pleated etc; it needs at least a stabilizer, but you could probably take it all the way to finnished.