First Homemade tank

[isantop]

I figured I'd do this right; hand-sewn, all the trimmings (since buying one is Soooooooo expensive!) It'll also be lighter, and suitable for summer.

So we went to the fabric store and I found a bolt of black stewart PV (65% poly) that I think should do nicely. It was on sale for $5 per yard, and we bought the whole bolt. It came to 5yards, and 28 in.

At home, I layed out the pleats. It'll be knife pleated to the sett with 4.5in deep pleats (two setts per pleat, since the sett on the fabric is small). Since it's such a small sett, I'll do 4 pleats per sett, and about 15-20 total since I'm too thin for any more than that.

Here's before pics:
The length, after tearing:

(That's obviously not the whole length )
the sett (about 4.5 in. per sett.)


I'll keep updated. Maybe a possible "X-Tank" or something?

[Mipi]

Looks very much like tartan I used for my kilt. The fabric is really good. Holds the pleats and doesn't wrinkle at all. Just that I payed more then $15 per meter (double width).

Good luck, you have fine material to work with.

[Bart_In_A_Kilt]

That is the very fabric that I just ued to make my kilt. It's nice to work with and machine sews well too.

Good luck and post lots of pics durring your progress.

Is there anny more of that fabric left by you? I wiped out 2 stores by me. I'd like to find more if I could.

[isantop]

That is the very fabric that I just ued to make my kilt. It's nice to work with and machine sews well too.

Good luck and post lots of pics durring your progress.

Is there anny more of that fabric left by you? I wiped out 2 stores by me. I'd like to find more if I could.

It was a 44 inch wide bolt, so I have a piece about 19 inches wide, and 5 2/3 yards long, but I may need some of it, so I can give you that yet. Maybe afterward.

[Bart_In_A_Kilt]

It was a 44 inch wide bolt, so I have a piece about 19 inches wide, and 5 2/3 yards long, but I may need some of it, so I can give you that yet. Maybe afterward.

No.. I meant are there any more bolts left at that fabric store that you got yours from.

[isantop]

Oh. Nope, it was on clearance.

[isantop]

Well, home projects, schoolwork, and procrastination aside, I finally got it done!! 25 (small) knife pleats with 12-ish inch aprons. It fits perfectly (as well it should!) and my terrible pleating aside (which really isn't bad for a teenager's first homemade kilt...) it looks great. I like this tartan for horizontal stripe pleating, and it works on me since I'm a toothpick.

Front:


Back:


Please excuse the bare mattress and grainy cellphone pics.

[D.A. Guertin]

Bart,

If this is the same as what I've been finding lately, there are *heaps* of it around here... It's marked as a Black Stewart, PV, 43" from what I can recall, and every Jo-Ann's I've been to has a bolt of it. Doesn't seem like it's moving at all. The pattern I'm picking up on (no pun intended), based on trying to hunt down more of the 96/4 wool tweed in my thread below, is that each store gets one bolt of each fabric, so buy what you can when you find it!

No.. I meant are there any more bolts left at that fabric store that you got yours from.

[vorpallemur]

Bart,

If this is the same as what I've been finding lately, there are *heaps* of it around here... It's marked as a Black Stewart, PV, 43" from what I can recall, and every Jo-Ann's I've been to has a bolt of it. Doesn't seem like it's moving at all. The pattern I'm picking up on (no pun intended), based on trying to hunt down more of the 96/4 wool tweed in my thread below, is that each store gets one bolt of each fabric, so buy what you can when you find it!

It depends on the fabric. There are, roughly, three sorts of fabrics at places like Joann's. The first are staples, which you can generally expect to find (with some seasonal variations: seersucker and linen are summer fabrics,), with colorways changing from time to time. Second are seasonal collections (which is what the black stewart is), which the chains have made or order for the appropriate season, and which may or may not be back the next year. (In some cases, you can get the store to order you more of these.) The third is stuff they've bought from a converter. These are usually seasonally appropriate, but what they get depends on what other people don't want. The decline of american apparel manufacturing means there's a whole lot less of this than there used to be.

[DizzyIzzy]

Very well done!! An accomplishment worth celebrating.