OK about three more hours today and X-Kilt prototype number 1 is done.

Today I...

Pinned in the taper in the pleats along the fell. I only tapered four pleats, as this guys doesn't have much differential between his butt measuremen and his waist measurement.

sewed down the pleats above the fell.

decided that this kilt wasn't going to need a waistband, so I ran a line of stitching around the very top of the kilt about 1/4 from the upper edge to hold down all the pleats.

sewed the "other half" of the velcro on the under-apron

cut off the left edge of the under-apron and hemmed it

made, and put on 5 belt loops for a 2.5 inch wide belt.

put in a button fastener to hold the right hand edge of the over apron close to the first pleat edge.

OK so now I'm 15.75 hours into making the two first prototypes of the X Kilt. Of that, about two thirds went into making prototype I, or roughly ten hours to make this kilt.

Can you find ten hours of time, a button, four yards of inexpensive material, a spool of theread, a foot of velcro, and a sewing machine that can sew straight stitch, zig-sag, and do a button hole? You don't even HAVE to do the button hole, you could set a couple of snaps instead, ya know?

If you answer yes to the above, then you can make this kilt...ten hours, gang...OK maybe 12-13 if it's your first kilt. It won't be as nice as a Utilikilt or a Freedom Kilt or an Amerikilt, but this one is looking pretty good, all things considered. I'm working on the instructions for ya!.