Because I have no sense - The Christmas Present Kilt

[Alan H]

Actually the guy who'll be getting this thing never posts on X Marks, though his dad, does...over there in our Athletics forum.

[LitTrog]

Actually the guy who'll be getting this thing never posts on X Marks, though his dad, does...over there in our Athletics forum.

I figured it was a relative of an X Marker, but the rest doesn't fit. Sux to be wrong.

[Alan H]

I figured it was a relative of an X Marker, but the rest doesn't fit. Sux to be wrong.

It's a good thing you can get by on stunning good looks, huh?

[LitTrog]

It's a good thing you can get by on stunning good looks, huh?

Precisely why I stick close to my wife. Her good looks enable my felonies to be forgiven.

[RogerWS76]

Actually the guy who'll be getting this thing never posts on X Marks, though his dad, does...over there in our Athletics forum.

Ha! THAT was my guess!! Awesome!!!

[Alan H]

Heh..... top-stitched about 8 of the pleats this morning. I'm out of practice getting machine-sewn, topstitched tartan to line up, so I had to re-do a bunch of them and when it's all done I still may come back and rip out one and do it again. In fact that one may be so troublesome after everything around it is stitched down that I may have to do it by hand.. Still...an hour and a quarter for 8 pleats is still probably twice as fast as if I hand-stitched them.

[Spinderella]

Well if you have no sense..then I have less..

I've been considering weaving hand spun, hand dyed (from native plants) yarn into a kilt. Actually two. One for myself, and one for a friend.

And yes, i question my sanity most days, i do. And the time required to pull off such a stunt.

But, oh boy, wouldn't it be worth it!!

So, feel better about yourself, you're buying the fabric already woven.. not quite as crazy as my idea ;-)

[Alan H]

Actually spinderella......I have always thought that it would be extremely cool to do the whole process. ->Get myself two big boxes of raw wool from some local sheep. Then spin about a kazillion yards of thread, and then weave it into 5 yards of 28-inch wide fabric...and then make a box-pleat kilt out of it. How utterly cool would that be?

In fact, once I interviewed for what would have been a really cool IT job at a local Art Institute. It would have been a horrible commute but a *Great* job. I got a tour, my eyeballs bugged out when I saw the weaving studio.

[Spinderella]

Actually spinderella......I have always thought that it would be extremely cool to do the whole process. ->Get myself two big boxes of raw wool from some local sheep. Then spin about a kazillion yards of thread, and then weave it into 5 yards of 28-inch wide fabric...and then make a box-pleat kilt out of it. How utterly cool would that be?

In fact, once I interviewed for what would have been a really cool IT job at a local Art Institute. It would have been a horrible commute but a *Great* job. I got a tour, my eyeballs bugged out when I saw the weaving studio.

Yes. Yes. and Yes! Glad to know I'm not the only one with this idea ;-)

Most of my weaving this year has been at the museum where i work in the summer. My big project this summer was to bring a 300 yr old barn-frame loom to life, with a warp for rag rugs done in a vintage drapery fabric

I have a quantity of hand-dyed with native dye plants, local fleece here, just waiting for the time to spin it. I've been busy with spinning projects for customers for a bit. Knitting, but I have nothing on my looms at the moment.

[Alan H]

I finished the pleats today. Man, they were a PAIN, I swear I could've done them faster by hand. 22 pleats.

Also trimmed off the under-apron and finished that, and finished the right hand edge of the over-apron and fringed it.