Please to add yours. I promise to include pictures within two weeks even if I have to put it back on to take fresh ones. Still waiting on the wedding photographer.

Briefly, my bride insisted on me in a flyplaid with my kilt and I chose to go with the larger piece of tartan.

I read Matt Newsome's page about half belted plaids over and over, and finally ordered two meters of double wide.

When I got the fabric in the mail I laid it right out on my bed and climbed in, remembering the edge should hang low enough over the belt at the front for the cloth to be "parted so as to discover the sporran", and drape low enough at the back to be more or less even with the bottom edge of the kilt, and then up over the left shoulder to be pinned in place.


So I put it on "that way" and it turns out I had it turned 90 degrees from the way Matt had it posted on his page. I folded pleats into the cut 55" edge and ran the selvedge edge, 80" out from under my sporran, over the belt, draped to the bottom of the kilt edge and then up to my shoulder.

After purling I wish I had ordered it even longer. I am 5'9" tall, and poking about a bit on the internet I found the average Scot when Erskine was writing (1900ish) was about 5'6" tall. Matt is quite a bit over six feet IIRC.

I can see pleating the selvedge edge and draping the cut edges on someone 5'6" tall and having the plaid drape low enough to wear a jacket, but only barely.

After purling I wish I had ordered about 2.2 meters of double wide, maybe 2.5, a little more cloth\weight on the front side of my jacket would have been welcome, and more length on the front behind the sporran would have been good too. I have been fooling with making purls that look more like the current variety on some swatches and expect to be updating my purling thread in probably two weeks or so.

But Matt's as last pictured looks more like a great kilt around the waist than mine came out. I dunno what to say about that.

I promise to post pictures. Soon.