X-Kilt 2.0 (Beta)

[Mark Keeney]

2 new kilts?
I’m thinking I’d like to try something very different. I have a touch over four yards and the idea is an inverse box pleat right in the middle with 15 inches or so of knife pleats on each side (pointing back towards the box). I want to have a smaller apron, more X-Kilt and less TANK so the knife pleats will be more visible.

This sounds like the pleating system of a Utilikilt unless I am missing something.

[Kid Cossack]

This sounds like the pleating system of a Utilikilt unless I am missing something.

It does at that, doesn't it? I think I'd like something that was "quasi-traditional", like a cross between a UK and something more traditional. Use the reverse Kinguisse style pleating, a slightly narrower apron (say 1/3 vice 1/2 width), I think it would be "the bomb."

[Pleater]

Hmmm - maybe I should have patented the idea.....

I have to say that the method of pleating - the 'ghillie kinguisse' seems to be the one which is most apt for me - the rear facing pleats both sides mean I can get around my garden and other vegetated ground without having the kilt snatched off by every branch, when sitting I can spread the rear box pleat and let the other pleats hang free.

I do not sew down the fell these days - I found, when wearing an early version of the 'GK' (Hey New abreviation here!!!) kilt only half done that there was no real need. I am now making a kilt with 50 small pleats - due to the way the stripes fall, no way would I ever sew down 50 supressed pleats. The under pleats are alternately red and white with black and grey, the reveals are black and grey.

I make the vertical edges of the apron fall at the middle of the knee, then when I sit down the under apron pleats open and the aprons fall vertically.