Kilts
Our good friend Pat (known around our house as Uncle Pat) is getting married next month. He and the groomsmen are wearing traditional kilts. They ordered tartans from Scotland (Homeland Security actually held them in customs for a while before they arrived here) and Libby and I are making the kilts. We have six to make. Three groomsmen, 1 groom and 2 ringbearers. We found a site online that has a decent tutorial and we have a pattern that is approved by the Official Scottish Kilt people (yes, they have a more official and respectable sounding name than that but I don’t remember what it is). The nice people at Treadle Yard Goods assured Libby that kilts are easy. The person who wrote the rather humorous tutorial reminded us that it’s a myth that kilts are hard to sew.
Um…yeah. They’re not. They are complicated and time consuming. Libby and I have it figured out and if the little kilts are any indication of how the full size one will look, the guys will be looking pretty good. But these are going to take a while to make. The groom’s kilt has over 8 yards of fabric and the groomsmen have about 5 yards. And about 3/4 of that fabric needs to be hand pleated. That’s going to take some time.
I’m excited to see how these turn out. It’s a big project and the fabric is gorgeous. Pictures will be posted as soon as they are finished.
