My first X-kilt!!!!

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Ok, here goes. I've spent the last couple months trying to find a sewing machine. Finally dug one out of our barn back home. T'was Grandma's, but it was put out to pasture because of some issues it had. (More on that when we need a break in the kiltmaking.) So now that I have a fully functional SM I outfitted my sad excuse for a sewing kit, the remains of Lynn's kit with some new things added and set out for some material. Mind you, to get to this point it's taken at least 6 weeks.

As much as I hated to, a week ago I went into Walmart and perused the 1, 2 & 3 dollar per yard fabric for an hour. I settled on a nice brownish/dark carharttish color. It's 2-3 times the weight of a pair of Dockers. I think it was cotton/poly/twill or something like that. I was going to just buy whatever, but I figured if the kilt came out nice, I'd look funny in green and purple bunny rabbit "tartan". I figure I'll wear this one camping to cheese off my one camping buddy who still thinks I'm weird for wearing a kilt. The other guy will have his own soon enough. So I wanted something heavy enough to stand up to hours of sitting on my **** playing cards and sampling adult beverages and still look decent for the occasional walk around the campground.

Anyway, here it is.
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I'm going to leave an extra 3/8" or so on the end of the over apron and anchor it so when I wash it, I get this same effect. If it gets really ratty over a bit of time, I'll trim it to a nice short slevedge. Speaking of, I decided to leave the selvedge edge since this is more of an outdoor, knock around kilt. Stick with the rugged look. It's kind of funky, but it was $9 what do you expect.
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So tonight, I set out to print the X-kilt manual so I could read it easily and have it handy. I found this old presentation kit in my desk and decided to make it a little booklet. Of course, I fed the paper wrong, so now I have to read from back to front, right to left. I also figured I'd do Alan proud by sampling a different brew each time I kilted. Only if it's past noon of course. Beer before then wouldn't be very appropriate. I'd have Bloody Marys or a Mimosas of course.
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I added both leaves to our dining room table and spread out the cloth. I'm going to figure out the pleats and apron before I even cut anything since I'm going to modify the kilt to my liking. I don't much care for the narrow apron, so I'm going to go with something a bit wider. Closer to a USAK casual. The pleats will be box pleats, but they'll be half the width called for in the manual.
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That's all for now folks, I'll keep you updated as I make progress. I'm not making any guarantees on time as I'm pretty busy this time of year, but I'll try to not drag this out for too long.