For the past few weeks we have had a young gentleman from our church's youth group living with my husband and I while he finishes high school. He admired my kilts (both the ones I made and ones purchased), and asked if I could make him a kilt for the upcoming gay pride festival in Fresno. Time was short, but since I'm a college professor, and already on summer break, I thought I could do it. I showed him several kilts and discussed options. The only rule I put into place was it had to be solid color (getting plaids or other patterns to line up gives me a headache, and it slows down my progress -- and we were on a time table.) He opted for a narrow apron, box pleat kilt. He requested I make it "low rise" like his jeans. I wasn't sure how to adapt (my adaptation of) the x-kilt to make it as low rise as he wanted it, but I was able to make it lower rise than a traditional kilt. He chose a kind of wine red fabric, and asked for a contrasting blue grey stitching, sewn down pleats (machine sewed), and belt loops. We grabbed a couple of pics of him. The pics are immediately after I finished it. He wore it the next day to school with one of my sporrans. And it was such a hit, he has asked when I'm making him another! I have started another on the addiction. Anyway, I know pics are important, so my husband snapped some pics, and assuming I uploaded them correctly, here they are:








Cheers
Chris