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4th February 08, 11:50 AM
#1
Making a skirt with a "flash 'o tartan"
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.
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4th February 08, 12:43 PM
#2
That looks great, my wife wants one
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4th February 08, 02:12 PM
#3
one step closer to my x-kilt....... *runs and hides*
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5th February 08, 06:01 AM
#4
That sounds fabulous! Can't wait to see (And recreate) it!
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5th February 08, 11:35 AM
#5
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"
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20th February 08, 01:24 PM
#6
Do you have any news or pics for us? I'd love to see some pics mate.
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20th February 08, 03:20 PM
#7
It's done, it' s gone I mailed it away!
Hopefully she'll take some pics.
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