For those that haven't seen on other threads, I'd recently purchased a copy of The Art of Kiltmaking and really have been itching to try it out. So, I bit the bullet and ordered 4 yards of doublewide US Army 16 oz tartan from TartanWeb. The first time in my life I've ever ordered anything from outside the continental US.

Well, I got notification on 1 September that it had shipped. I figured it would be a couple of weeks as it paddled a little rowboat all the way from Scotland. Well, it seems that Jerry let them borrow his swallows, as it arrived today (they'd actually tried to deliver yesterday, but they wanted a signature and nobody was home).

Well, I unwrapped it immediately, and it's absolutely beautiful. I've got most of the other odds and ends required per Barb's advice, except for the lining, hair canvas, and thread (I'd been waiting for the tartan to show up so I could take a small swath into Joann's to match colors).

So, I'm going to do this "by-the-book", as it were. I'll post pictures as part of the ongoing process. Note that my time is not always my own, so it is most likely to be a drawn out process. Unless everyone wants ongoing progress updates, I may just take pictures as I go, and then post one final update with the pictures once I finish.

As one of my personality flaws, I'm very much a child of the 21st century. I want it, and I want it now. So, it will be a good exercise in self control for me to finish this by hand.

Brian