Round 35, Hour 14

[isdon-isgood9.livejournal.com]

Ok this is my last hour :D How do I know this? Cause it's midnight Sunday morning in Australia whether or not a mod shows up I'm going to bed otherwise I won't be able to function tomorrow :D So with that in mind talk with each other in the comments and have a wonderful day/night of reading.  Hopefully with a lot of support from each other :D

So for my last hour of Saturday (I guess technically it's my first hour of Sunday :D) How did the writing go? And goodnight :D

Comments

[a-q.livejournal.com]

Goodnight! :)

[thisbluespirit]

For all mods, there comes a point when we reach our Final Hour.

Goodnight! ;-)

[burning-night.livejournal.com]

I'm saying goodnight to you just as I'm signing on again!

My presence today will probably be sporadic but I'm hoping to get something done XD

[justice-turtle.livejournal.com]

KIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILT I HAS ONE! Well, technically I've still got to put the waistband on (after I buy the stuff to make the waistband out of, there was no fabric left for a self waistband)... but I think we can all agree that the Platonic ideal form of a kilt is "that which is tartan and has a ton of knife-pleats in", and this kilt now has all 42 knife-pleats ironed into it. :D

Also I have cleared away some Stuff I Was Tripping Over, and also phoned my mum. Only my littlest sister (I mean, she's twenty, just little compared to the rest of us) answered the phone and promised to pass on the message, so I still don't know if / when I need to be at home or not.

But now I am very tired and I think I'm going back to bed. Zzzzz.

[lolmac]

Are they knife pleats or box pleats?

Knife pleats are not pleats with a knife edge: they are pleats that all point in the same direction, whether it's right or left. Box pleats form a box and show more of the tartan at a time. Both create a 3:1 fullness ratio and are used in kilts, although box pleats are the standard for the modern tailored kilt whoops, I'm behind the times again -- knife pleats have become much more common. This website has one of the best rundowns of the differences I've ever seen (apparently modern styles of building a knife-pleated kilt stack the pleats in back and use more yardage):

Picture of box pleated and knife pleated kilts

[justice-turtle.livejournal.com]

Ooh, fascinating! *reads* I don't think I'd ever seen a box-pleated kilt (as distinct from one of those funny school skirts with just four giant box-pleats) up close enough / in motion, to notice the differences before.

My kilt is knife-pleated, because that's the kind I'd seen, even in replica fileadh mor styles. *iz apparently yung* Also because knife pleats are less confusing to make, for me. It doesn't have stacked pleats in the back, though, because I had barely enough yardage to go all the way round me at the 3:1 ratio and (it being planned as a wrap kilt anyway, with highly inauthentic velcro :D) had to cheat an apron on at the end.

*adjusts Platonic ideal form to tartan having a lot of just plain "pleats" in, which I thought of saying in the first place o_O* *typos "place" as "pleace"*

In other news, the word "pleat" no longer looks like a word after reading that website. ;-)

[lolmac]

Thank you SO MUCH for covering for Glinda! That was a looong stretch!!