I'm ticking them off my list. Next up is the Hall tartan box pleat. I test-pleated today, looks good. THi sis a serious annoyance, though. When I ordered the stuff, I didn't talk to the proprietor of the store, which according to my West Coast Clan dude, has 13 ounce tartan in stock. No, I talked to someone who obviously had no clue about anything. I specifically told him I wanted it for a BOX PLEAT KILT and I understood he had KILTING TARTAN IN STOCK in the warehouse.

Now, this company had a fire about 18 months ago and lost a lot of stock, but at the 2007 Pleasanton Games, they assured me that the Hall tartan was not damaged. So I figured I was good to do. I should have taken a clue when the guy said "we're waiting for your tartan to ship".

But I didn't.

So a few weeks later a bag arrives from the vendor. Like an idjit, I didn't open it for a couple of weeks. Turns out that they shipped ten ounce cloth. ARRRRRGH.

This stuff has been sitting in my study for months while I vaguely thought about how to work around this dilemma. I have some ideas, quite experimental, which I'm going to try out. One of them includes turning up a huge hem, probably 4+ inches to add weight to the bottom of the kilt. We shall see.

This one better not take 6 months!