Novice tailor tackles X-kilt

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Here then is the final result, fore and aft:



There are some faults, but this is why we learn with inexpensive cotton! I understand my brethren's references to kilts for yard work! but as a first project, I feel good about it.

I have made the classic mis-reading, and considered the 3-inch "forward facing" side of the first/last pleats to yield a 1.5 inch half-pleat. That could certainly be deeper, as I should know from playing with my SWK and other kilts.

The left corner of the apron seems destined to curl up. this may have to do with the A-shaping, or perhaps I pulled the back of the underpleat in a funny way. I did sew down the edge of that underpleat, and perhaps I missed. Deepening the front half of the first pleat might help, as well.

I have pretty good sized under-apron pleats on both sides (5 and 6 inches). Perhaps a bit more would be better.

In my most dramatic "oops," I re-ordered the steps in "measure twice, cut once." I had just re-figured my length, coming up with a slightly shorter figure than before; and when I cut, I left out a generous hem allowance. D'oh! Yet all is not lost: it was a high-rise X-kilt, now it's a low-rise one. There is plenty of fabric on the other side for a nice high-rise Mark 1 A1 model!

Almost forgot my most pressing question: with a 9-10 inch over apron, what is optimum size of the under-apron??? I'm about the size of the hypothetical guy in Appendix 1 diagram, but was not very sure what was included in the 16 inch allocation for the under apron. I extended a bit with a deep (6") apron pleat, then made the apron 10 inches wide. I'll wear it a while and see what happens.