Grrrr! A frustrating choice

[Dixiecat]

I purchased an extra yard of fabric, intending to make a matching waistcoat for the kilt that I ordered. As it turns out, the fabric cannot be matched to the front apron of the kilt!

I'm not quite catching what you mean. You bought a yard of the EXACT same tartan as your kilt (i.e. it came off the SAME bolt) and it won't match up? Or, it's the same tartan, but off another bolt, from another weaver, different weight?

[Bugbear]

I'm not quite catching what you mean. You bought a yard of the EXACT same tartan as your kilt (i.e. it came off the SAME bolt) and it won't match up? Or, it's the same tartan, but off another bolt, from another weaver, different weight?

I don't know about the same bolt, but this tartan all comes from the same weaver and is all the same weight. In fact, it is 16 Oz Jura, Bear tartan from Martin Mills... At least as far as I know.

[Pleater]

I found that the fabric I bought a whole bolt of was brushed on the right side, and to use the wrong side for a kilt cut along the selvage would mean the twill ran in the wrong direction, so to get it right I needed to turn it ninety degrees.

So the wrong side rotated is the same as the right side should have been.

But with an asymetric tartan as well that might throw in an extra dimension that prevents a match.

The 'obvious' solution is to buy the same amount of a plain fabric in a toning colour and make a kilt that you can wear with the tartan waistcoat and a plain waistcoat you can wear with either kilt.

Simples!

Anne the Pleater