In total disgust with myself, for all talk-no do, I have just STARTED.

I've blind-stitch hemmed a gigantic hem into this thing. Hopefully that will add weight. It's got to be about a 3 inch turn-up. I'm 2/3rds done with the hemming.

A few days ago I laid out the pleats and apron again, and pinned them in place bfrom fell to hem.

This morning I joined the box pleats to one another at the bottom of the fell, and ironed the pleats in, hard. I know this is daffy, I'm not done with the blind-stitching yet, but I'm impatient. It actually looks pretty good.

Interesting discovery...I spent some time with David Hall, our West Coast Commissioner at the Pleasanton Games. He has a Hall tartan kilt, obviously. Son of a Gun but it's made out of this same stuff...10-11 ounce. It looks fine. So does Pams skirt, same stuff.

So we shall see. I ain't gonna line it. I'm sick of putting it off and putting it off and I'm just gonna MAKE the thing. The lining material I bought, a navy blue twill, will wind up as a jerkin for the rare times I go out to play with the Guild.