BEWARE - Fraser and Kirkbright Hunting Stewart

[Alan H]

If you are pleating to the alternating red and yellow stripes then you could get away with cutting and joining the fabric they way you would with a symetrical tartan since the non matching patter would be hidden inside the pleats. Of course this wouldn't work pleating to the sett, but going to the stripe might make the project and the cost salvagable.

No! .....well, unless your pleat reveals are SO small that all that is seen is the yellow or red stripe and none of the surrounding tartan.....which is pretty much impossible to do. You'd have 1/16th of an inch-wide pleat reveals. I can't imagine trying to explain why, though a picture would show why in an instant. However, please trust me. You cannot do this with this particular fabric. The only way to combine pieces from opposite sides is to pick your line at which you cut very cleverly and then serge a raw edge and then hem the kilt. That's what I did, though I wasn't clever, in the slightest. I was just plain lucky.