If sydnie7 can do it, so can I: the rev K

[Carolina Kiltman]

. . . and maybe I can suck up to the F-H.C.A.G enough...by supplying her with alcohol.... to get her to edit it, too.

Just goes to prove that the poet was right: "Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker!"

BTW the kilt looks good in the pictures.

[The F-H.C.A.G.]

... I'll volunteer to vett/edit it, and maybe I can suck up to the F-H.C.A.G enough...by supplying her with alcohol.... to get her to edit it, too.

Yeah, but if you supply me with enough alcohol to get me to promise this, I'll forget the promise!

Be well,

[Pleater]

I am firmly of the opinion that every kilt wearer needs a black one - and my pleating of choice is the reverse Kingussie.

One thing I do when making a kilt, though, once I get the pleats measured out, is to spend a long time in pressing each outside fold of the pleats and if the material is at all likely to lose the fold - denim would be one of them, though I have not used it I have quite a number of all cotton kilts - I would sew the fold down so as to firstly try to keep the pleat neat and secondly make it easy to repress the fold exactly.

I have some hair straighteners - electrically heated things like tongs, with the smooth plates in (there are crimping options) which are handy for trips within civilisation, as I can just smooth along the sewn lines and it restores the pleats in five minutes as well as half an hour's ironing.

If you are going to twist the pleat for shaping above the hip line then concentrate the pressing below the edge of the fell, and only press the single thickness and use a pressing cloth. That way you don't get lines from the folds under the pleat, almost inevetable if you don't use some sort of pressing board when the kilt is completed, and the fabric is not made shiny by the ironing when protected by the cloth.

It can be difficult not to dive straight into the sewing, but getting those folds pressed in beforehand is a lot easier than when the kilt is together.

Anne the Pleater