In a recent post I asked the rabble to help ID a 2 yard length of tartan I had gotten. It seemed vintage and the low price (at a church rummage sale) was such that it seemed worth trying a 4 yard kilt. Turns out it was Fraser Hunting (and had a more weathered or ancient feel). The original post is here:

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...-tartan-79893/

This weekend I started the kilt, so wanted to do shots of its progress. I was doing a box pleat kilt, my first, which seemed the best model to try with only 4 yards of fabric. First I needed to decide the stripe for the pleats. I saw three options:



Initially I thought the red stripe would be it for sure. But upon laying it out for a test, it didn't really hold much interest because it had very little pop.



The white stripe seemed to work a lot better.



I really liked the blue-grey stripes as my pleat center, but very quickly found that since they were not "center" stripes in the sett, that is was difficult to figure out the centering inside the box pleat. It didn't seem to center on a distinctive place in the sett, so opted for the the white stripe, which centered very easily.

Following the instructions from the the Box Pleat supplement to TAoK, I set off. What I found quickly was that after making a couple of knife pleat kilts, the process seemed to go a lot more smoothly.

AND box pleat kilts ROCK because I only had nine pleats to sew! The bummer was that the tartan had a less than perfect selvage so would require hemming.

More to come...