Hair Canvas in the Apron of a Canvas Kilt

[Bugbear]

Ok, I ran it through the washer in the mesh washing bag. All the stitches held up fine, and the hair canvas looks fine.

I have it spread out on my clothes drying rack with a fan on it, and I'll let it dry out part way, then iron it dry.

It all seems to have worked out well, and I needed to water one of the cactus hedges, so the fifty gallons of gray water was welcome too.

I don't know for sure how well the stiching will hold up over time, that's the tether stitching, but I guess that's part of the experiment too.

* I have ironed the pleats, and the aprons. The pleats are sewn in on the inside and outside edges, and I have to make sure that those edges are laying flat on the inside of the kilt before I iron them. It works out a lot better if I iron one pleat at a time, then iron across all of them when they are all flattened. It takes a while.

On the double reverse pleat on the right hand side, I pressed in a new crease on the inside edge of the last pleat (not the under apron edge). It wanted to fold there so I went ahead and accepted that. It's not sewn in, but it will fold there on it's own. I might go back and press it from the back side now that the crease is well defined.

There's a little more stitching here and there I need to finnish, but I think the beastly thing is done. I like that the kilt is rugged and made from the very strong cotton fabric; though it means I have to iron it and it does have to be unrumpled after sitting. The kilt was not designed to fit my body shape, and it would be much better if it were; that's a tradeoff I made and I've done what I can to make the best of it.