I finally found time to cut fabric today, but then I had to go into work for 3 hours, so I was not able to actually sew anything together-that's going to be a bit complicated, as you will see tomorrow (hopefully).

Since everything has been rolled up in my closet, I had to iron the fabric again, then I used a good solid straight edge to help me mark things out.



I am using regular chalk, and I realize, since I am using wool tartan, I'm not going to be able to throw this in the washing machine afterwards, but it wipes off pretty well. Here, I'm marking the tartan-the way things will work out, it will look pleated to the sett, except that the sett will be narrowed (seams will use some of the dark blue solid portion) with a white stripe alternating with a yellow stripe on each successive pleat.



Once I had marked, I cut out all of my pieces: apron, underapron, deep pleat (under the apron), inner pleats and outer pleats, saved a strip for the waistband and another for the fringed edge of the apron. In order to be sure I aligned everything right, I pinned labels on each piece, or groups of pieces.



In the above picture, we are looking at the outside of the skirt-the top away from us, the right side is the apron edge and the left is the under apron (this will open to the left, since it is technically a skirt, not a kilt). Each of the tags has arrows pointing up, down, left, right, as I am ultraparanoid of losing track of which piece goes which way.

This picture may show the tags better (or may not)



That's all for today. The boy must go to piano class now. I may or may not sew some tonight, but likely will not post until tomorrow.

Be well,