Different yardage? Pros, I need your help.

**The Wizard of BC** · 11th January 08, 06:40 PM

OK, I'm an engineer so I don't think like Barb. She actually knows what she is doing.
So I had to come up with some way to determine fabric requirements. So I did an Excel spreadsheet that will tell me up front how much fabric to order.

Now please remember, this is for one of my style kilts. It will be totally different than a Traditional the way Barb does it.

For example, these numbers are for a kilt order I took just today:
Given a person with a hip measurement of 49"
The apron will be 18" wide and there will be 31 pleats of 1" reveal.

Then if you use the Colquhoun Tartan which has a Sett of 6.125"

Pleating the the stripe will require 287.38" or 7.98 yards total fabric.

Making the exact same kilt but pleating to the Sett will require 318.38" or 8.84 yards total length.

Exactly the same kilt. Same pleat reveal, same no. of pleats. The only difference is the final look of the back of the kilt.

**CameronTaylor** · 11th January 08, 07:50 PM

You're making my head hurt with all that engineering stuff.
Aren't you supposed to be making a kilt or something ???

CT - you know, something that someone like me could wear to beer/kilt night on the 25th

**The Wizard of BC** · 11th January 08, 09:24 PM

CT, if you think your head hurts you should be on this side of it. I'm the one who has to think up all this stuff 'cause I can't sew a real kilt.
My wife's eyes just roll up in her head when I get on these rolls.
Would you like to know how much that fabric is to 16 decimal places just so you won't make a mistake?