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6th March 06, 06:54 PM
#1
I use a small pair of pointy scissors. Like Ham, I snip the thread about every 3rd pleat, then carefully pull the pieces out.
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6th March 06, 07:50 PM
#2
 Originally Posted by Al G. Sporrano
I use a small pair of pointy scissors. Like Ham, I snip the thread about every 3rd pleat, then carefully pull the pieces out.
That's my method as well.
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6th March 06, 08:26 PM
#3
A seam ripper is the best way. It is small, pointed, and not prone to cutting anything other than what you are aiming at.
The kilt concealed a blaster strapped to his thigh. Lazarus Long
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6th March 06, 08:33 PM
#4
Originally Posted by KiltedCodeWarrior
A seam ripper is the best way. It is small, pointed, and not prone to cutting anything other than what you are aiming at.
and you can pick one up at just about any drug store or grocery. just have to be careful where you leave it as that can be rather painful to sit on!!!
ITS A KILT, G** D*** IT!
WARNING: I RUN WITH SCISSORS
“I asked Mom if I was a gifted child… she said they certainly wouldn’t have paid for me."
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6th March 06, 09:26 PM
#5
You're supposed to take those things off?? 
Just kidding.
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6th March 06, 10:15 PM
#6
Sorta along the same lines...new kilts seem to always have loose threads sticking out of seams. I use one of those long tube candle lighters to burn them back. Depending on the thread type you gotta pay attention, but its fast and easy and seems to help hold the thread in place. Kilt looks a lot sharper too.
Ron
Ol' Macdonald himself, a proud son of Skye and Cape Breton Island
Lifetime Member STA. Two time winner of Utilikiltarian of the Month.
"I'll have a kilt please, a nice hand sewn tartan, 16 ounce Strome. Oh, and a sporran on the side, with a strap please."
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7th March 06, 04:56 AM
#7
"A day spent in the fields and woods, or on the water should not count as a day off our allotted number upon this earth."
Jerry, Kilted Old Fart.
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7th March 06, 04:58 AM
#8
Well I used Hamish's method on the second kilt I had where I hadn't taking out the basting thread and it worked like a dream....if there was a knot, I just started pulling in the opposite direction.....
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7th March 06, 05:08 AM
#9
Originally Posted by Riverkilt
Sorta along the same lines...new kilts seem to always have loose threads sticking out of seams. I use one of those long tube candle lighters to burn them back. Depending on the thread type you gotta pay attention, but its fast and easy and seems to help hold the thread in place. Kilt looks a lot sharper too.
Ron
Ron,
you really really scare me sometimes....
I now have visions of a tartan torch running thru my head!!!
ITS A KILT, G** D*** IT!
WARNING: I RUN WITH SCISSORS
“I asked Mom if I was a gifted child… she said they certainly wouldn’t have paid for me."
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7th March 06, 06:07 AM
#10
Originally Posted by Riverkilt
Sorta along the same lines...new kilts seem to always have loose threads sticking out of seams. I use one of those long tube candle lighters to burn them back. Depending on the thread type you gotta pay attention, but its fast and easy and seems to help hold the thread in place. Kilt looks a lot sharper too.
Ron
That's the same method we learned to deal with the stray threads on our BDU's in the Army. It does clean up the rough edges, but you have to be careful.
We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. - Japanese Proverb
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