Hemming a PV/Acrylic Kilt

[ChattanCat]

The stitch you need for hemming is a herringbone stitch. You should be able to google it. The herringbone stitch in a catch stitch so don't go thru the kilt just catch a thread or two on the outer material. The hem isn't that important but you need to make sure you make the hem even all the way around by measuring and basting. Then you can hem and once your are finished you need to press. I would recommend that you baste the pleats at the bottom to hole them in place during pressing.

[josephkirkpatrick]

Thanks for the advice! I think I'll have it professionally altered because the herringbone looks too easy to screw up.

[fluter]

Thanks for the advice! I think I'll have it professionally altered because the herringbone looks too easy to screw up.

Not so! It's dead simple, merely tedious. It's like a blind hem stitch, moving backwards.

[janderson]

I've had 2 pv kilts hemmed by a tailor. Stillwater puts a note in their pv kilts recommendi.g a blind hem stitch.

When I picked mine up from the tailor he thanked me for the fun job as it was his first kilt. I think I paid about $25 for it to raised about an inch and a half.