Brace Yourself: X-Kilt manual, 2nd ed

**RadioKen** · 29th December 08, 03:36 PM

Originally Posted by fluter

Just save attaching the Velcro until you know how the deep pleat on the left-hand side of the apron is going to fold.

Pfffft! Is that all? I was thinking it was going to require some refiguring of numbers or remeasuring of...things that need measuring.

I'm going shopping tonight for fabric. Also for materials with which to build a kilt-making station. There's not enough room in the house for the inital stages of making the kilt (where all the fabric gets stretched out at once), so I've some up with a way to set one up temporarily in the driveway or on the front lawn. Can't imagine what the neighbors will think.

~Ken

**sydnie7** · 29th December 08, 05:22 PM

Originally Posted by RadioKen

Pfffft! Is that all? I was thinking it was going to require some refiguring of numbers or remeasuring of...things that need measuring.

I'm going shopping tonight for fabric. Also for materials with which to build a kilt-making station. There's not enough room in the house for the inital stages of making the kilt (where all the fabric gets stretched out at once), so I've some up with a way to set one up temporarily in the driveway or on the front lawn. Can't imagine what the neighbors will think.

~Ken

I use the dining table for layout. Can't get it all stretched out at once, but that has never bothered me. Then again, I've been laying out sewing patterns that way for *cough*45*cough* years. . . excuse me, there's a glass of wine with my name on it!

**Alan H** · 29th December 08, 06:13 PM

The changes in the original instructions for the X-Kilt will be very minor. This one problem IS sort of vexatious, and while it's not THAT BIG OF A DEAL, I might as well fix it, you know? If you've started an X-Kilt with the old instructions, carry on.

**The F-H.C.A.G.** · 29th December 08, 07:25 PM

Originally Posted by Alan H

It's in the works. The next edition will:

...snip...

2. Hopefully contain at least a dozen pictures of the construction process. HOPEFULLY. This means I have to make myself another X-Kilt, so I can take pictures. Well, I *do* have more of that leftover digicamo from way2fractious

3. And the killer-diller....the 2nd edition will contain an approximately 10 page addendum, with several pictures and diagrams from sydnie7, on how to adapt the X-Kilt to Reverse Kinguisse construction.

...snip...

I've just gone through sydnie7's RK instructions and she's a good writer, they're very clear. Hopefully we'll have the final version up by mid-late January.

Cool!

Now, you know you can probably borrow some pics from me.

Can't wait for the reverse Kinguissie as well.

Alan, you suddenly seem to have more time on your hands. Could it be that the highland athletic season is over?

Be well,

**Tartan Hiker** · 30th December 08, 05:21 PM

Very cool, Alan. Thanks for all your time and efforts with this project. I'm really digging my reverse-K kilt (I made it up as I went...before Sydnie's instructions came out). It's one of my favorite hiking kilts. I'm glad you're advocating this design as well as the "original" X-Kilt.

**KiltedBrewer** · 31st December 08, 05:01 AM

A new x-kilt manual...Nice! I just found myself a used sewing machine last night. By the time I get it serviced and buy some fabric, I'll be able to use the new manual. Closet full of kilts, here I come!

David

**Smayniac** · 31st December 08, 06:09 PM

Originally Posted by The F-H.C.A.G.

Cool!

Can't wait for the reverse Kinguissie as well.

I never really had a problem with the under apron strip, but I saw the problem on the horizon and figured out how to avoid it.

I'm looking forward to the RK instructions as well. I have other projects ahead of it, but I have the fabric picked out for that one already.

Bob

**Pleater** · 2nd January 09, 04:49 PM

My conscience has been bothering me about my promised RK instructions - not that I have not done anything - just that I have done too much.

I think the only thing to do is start again, keeping in mind the 'C's - writing should be clear, concise, correct, consistant etc., and not be too large to fit onto an email.

I just never know when to stop explaining.

Anne the Pleater

**Moski** · 4th January 09, 09:11 PM

Originally Posted by Alan H

It's in the works. The next edition will:

1. Change the mess-up where the over-apron strip gets half-hidden by the under-apron pleat.

I just ran into that one. I'm finishing up my first kilt and spent a lot of time scratching my head trying to figger where I brain burped with the strip or if I got the under-apron wrong.

I just added another two inches of velcro to the end and went with that.

**Alan H** · 29th January 09, 01:38 AM

It's going out to the reviewer (aka sydnie7) who will take me to task for typos and see if my re-vamp of the over-apron-strip problem makes sense. We then incorporate her Reverse Kinguisse X-Kilt appendix, and it's done.

It's now 50 pages and over 14,000 words. That will be closer to 55 pages when sydnie7 adds her appendix. There are 30 pictures and diagrams and photographs of finished X-Kilts from ten different X-Markers, who I HOPE will be OK with me including their stuff in the manual.

Annoyingly, the conversion from rtf to pdf has flummoxed some of the formatting but we'll figure out something.

It's coming.