Kilt! I need help

[Mr E Nigma]

In one of my classes at school our final project is to make a garment using non-cloth related items. As in, like trash bags, you know, recycled stuff theme as opposed to materials.

So the garment I want to create above anything else is a Kilt made out of lanyards. I'm just wondering, from the people with fashion experience, what would be a good way to go about making it.

Feel free to give advice now, when I get a chance I'll sketch out a decent design for it, but basically imagine a kilt but instead of the whole plaid pattern etc... imagine lanyards, in a vertical fashion, all around the outside of the kilt, completely covering it up. That'll be what it should look like.

[zebra]

Wait, so do you plan on weaving the lanyard together to make a kind of fabric? Or do you want them to just hang down like a hula skirt? Sounds like it would take forever...

[Mr E Nigma]

Originally Posted by zebra

Wait, so do you plan on weaving the lanyard together to make a kind of fabric? Or do you want them to just hang down like a hula skirt? Sounds like it would take forever...

I'm not sure, I'm tossing around ideas, but yeah, one of those 2, with the hanging down though, I was going to attach the inside part of them together, so it sort of has a ruffled effect, and the inside will be lined with a trashbag or something else that I can just attach them too without it looking horrendous

[Lakita in the House!]

i knew you was a homo y'all wants to wear a skirt, that ain't right.

[Pineapple_Juice]

This is old so I don't know if you an still use it but there's a website that's fantastic called Craftster and I'm sure they'd have a buttload of ideas for you.

[Mr E Nigma]

Thanks! Nah, I still need ideas! haha... I'm working out a few styles at the moment before I decide which is more practical and still looks good.

[Serren]

Hmm I think kilts can be quite hard to make, I know my husbands has to go to the dry cleaners so it can have all the pleats ironed in it.