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eric_h
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| Chainmail kilt, in progress |
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| Posted on Mon Mar 03, 2008 1:45 am |
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So, a while ago, I posted that I was going to do a chainmail kilt in the Black Watch tartan. The project is underway. First, I did the inlay:
which gives me one sett that I can repeat over and over. It should take me about 70 of these (14 long, 5 high), not counting some overlap when I do the splits for movement. So far, I've completed 4 and stitched them together into a single panel (to better show the color pattern).
First, on a white background, which shows the individual rings a bit clearer:
And then again on a black background, which shows the color a bit better:
Each of the individual panels is 640 rings (once the black border is added to the top and left side). Overall, I'm looking at about 45,000 rings (probably more, once I factor in the overlap again). |
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| Posted on Mon Mar 03, 2008 1:48 am |
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| That's just really...cool. Wow, I can't wait to see it done! |
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| Posted on Mon Mar 03, 2008 2:26 am |
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Yeah, that looks great! Yay big projects. 
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eric_h
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| Posted on Mon Mar 03, 2008 2:41 am |
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| Yeah, I'm hoping to have it done by August. I'm figuring on 200 total hours (I should probably break it down and have milestones to shoot for to measure my progress) |
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tattooteal
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| Posted on Mon Mar 03, 2008 3:42 am |
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| from one inlay person to another, I must say wow, that looks fantastic so far, I would really like to see the final product |
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| Posted on Mon Mar 03, 2008 3:50 am |
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I like plaid. I like maille. I'm drooling over plaid maille. 
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eric_h
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| Posted on Mon Mar 03, 2008 10:18 pm |
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| tattooteal wrote: | | from one inlay person to another, I must say wow, that looks fantastic so far, I would really like to see the final product |
The thing that's making it easier now is that I broke the inlay down and can do it using fivelets (once I looked at it more closely). If you split it in half (along the horizontal black line), you take the top half, it is composed of 3 strips made from fivelets with a row of one at a time at the bottom. The bottom half is the opposite, the one at a time row is on top. Connect using the black line.
The breakdown:
8x green fivelets
8x black
8x blue
8x blue/black (2 black, 2 blue alternating, connected by a blue center ring)
8x black/blue (same as above, but black center ring
8x green/black
8x black/green
8x green/blue
8x blue/green
Since I have 66 more panels to go, it means I need to make 528 of each type of fivelet, then start joining them together... |
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Zjef
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| Posted on Tue Mar 04, 2008 6:56 pm |
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Good luck! Keep on posting pictures while you work. I'd love to see this becoming a real kilt.
Maille Code V2.0 T6.3 R4.9 Eo Fhyb MFe.s Wci$ Cbc$ G2.3/0.129 I16.5-1.0 N29.26 Pn Dacdejs Xg23p1t2w1 S07
Horum omnium fortissimi sunt Belgae. [Of all these the Belgians are the bravest/strongest.]
- Gaius Iulius Caesar, De Bello Gallico I 3 |
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| Posted on Tue Mar 04, 2008 9:57 pm |
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Good luck!! It looks lilke it's coming along quite well. The chainmaille tartan looks really neat!
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Carys
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| Posted on Wed Mar 05, 2008 1:08 am |
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| Zjef wrote: | | Good luck! Keep on posting pictures while you work. I'd love to see this becoming a real kilt. |
Me too. Do you have any idea based on what you have now, what the final product will weigh? How do the pleats stay formed? |
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Zjef
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| Posted on Wed Apr 09, 2008 7:58 pm |
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Any progress?
Maille Code V2.0 T6.3 R4.9 Eo Fhyb MFe.s Wci$ Cbc$ G2.3/0.129 I16.5-1.0 N29.26 Pn Dacdejs Xg23p1t2w1 S07
Horum omnium fortissimi sunt Belgae. [Of all these the Belgians are the bravest/strongest.]
- Gaius Iulius Caesar, De Bello Gallico I 3 |
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grrlgoyle
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| Posted on Wed Apr 09, 2008 8:53 pm |
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I had a man show up at my door in a kilt once!!! Woooooo! I love a man in tartan.  |
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ColJack
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| Posted on Wed Apr 09, 2008 9:12 pm |
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did you find out if he was a true Scot?
"Hathor is the godess of fornication, intoxication and music..."
"So..... Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll?"
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grrlgoyle
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| Posted on Wed Apr 09, 2008 9:23 pm |
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| In fact he was not.... But I love the tartan all the same. |
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eric_h
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| Posted on Wed Apr 09, 2008 11:24 pm |
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| Zjef wrote: | | Any progress? |
wow... the preview page for posting is blocked by my company internet system... that sucked, since it deleted what I had typed in...
What I was saying is that I mapped the pattern and noticed that each sett contains 8 fivelets of 9 solid colors or 2 color combos, so I'm spending my time churning out fivelets... 528 of each one (66 remaining setts)
Once that's done (I have 3 of the 9 done), I'll get back to assembling setts...
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