I bought some budget grey/blue 10.5 ounce poly/wool from Fraser and Kirkbright to practice pleating to the sett before I jumped into the X-Marks kilt. First off, let me tell ya, pleating to sett is a lot harder than pleating to stripe!

It's kind of funny to look at the kilt. The tapering gets better as I moved along from one side to the next. However, this thing still has "the wavies" pretty badly and some of the pleat stitching shows. This is in part because the fabric is kind of flimsy and in part because...well, because I'm only SO patient and this kilt was for practice.. It doesn't look BAD, it just doesn't look great.

Anyway, it's a 6-yarder with 24 pleats, plus the reverse pleat and I wasn't as accurate as I should have been, 'cause it's a bit small 'round the rump. I made the apron about an inch wider to help compensate and it's OK, but not the greatest. The thing is perfectly wearable, it's just nowhere near the quality of the commercial kilts I have.

It's also a fair bit too long. I'm not sure why. I'll have to go back to my original dimensions and see what I did. for now, I'll have to hem it. **le sigh**

Anyway, one last buckle strap to go, and I can slap it on. I'll post pics when it's done, but before I hem it.