Kilt #3/Box-Pleat #1/"Pittsburgh Kilt"

**Wompet** · 5th January 07, 05:16 PM

How's that for a thread title?
This is the third kilt I've finished, the first box pleat I've made, the first "tartan" kilt, and as for Pittsburgh - well, you'll see.

I bought the fabric from this eBay auction a few months back because it looked like a good blue-and-white plaid (word used intentionally) to make a kilt out of. Unfortunately, as I mentioned in this thread, it only looks blue under natural light - under any other condition it looks purple.

So after some yellow dye, and some sewing - a black and gold kilt:

The left edge of the overapron isn't quite right, and the fabric stretched during sewing, so the waist is a bit messy, but at least the pleats are right.
I'm going to have the buckle back further, I think.

**KiltedCodeWarrior** · 5th January 07, 05:41 PM

Pleats look good, a few larger ones instead of smaller it appears. But dude, how about a smile, or at least a grimace instead of the scowl??

**Wompet** · 6th January 07, 03:25 AM

Sorry, my expression is a combination of:

having just driven two hours with a splitting headache in post-holiday traffic, and
thinking "Why hasn't the flash gone off yet? It should have gone off by now." [cocks head to one side like confused dog] "What is taking this camera so long?" [FLASH!]

**starbkjrus** · 6th January 07, 08:37 AM

Originally Posted by Wompet

Sorry, my expression is a combination of:

having just driven two hours with a splitting headache in post-holiday traffic, and
thinking "Why hasn't the flash gone off yet? It should have gone off by now." [cocks head to one side like confused dog] "What is taking this camera so long?" [FLASH!]

That's the sort of thing that would definitely happen to me.