The unladen swallows showed up!

[TheKiltedCoder]

Good afternoon!!

The kilt $DEITIES were very, VERY good to me today. First, I'd ordered a new Sgian Dubh from Matt, and then the MacRae Ancient Hunting custom I'd ordered from Jerry at Stillwater showed up.

For the custom MacRae, I just have never been able to convince myself to hem a decent kilting selvedge, and my legs are just too short to be able to carry off an off-the-rack 24" kilt. Since it was a custom order, I had it pleated to the white stripe instead of to the sett (a minor error on my part, I think: now that I've seen the tartan up close and personal, I think I should have had it pleated to the red stripe).

The Sgian Dubh can be found here. I'd ordered the Tay (search for SD99 on the page). The original stone I'd ordered with it was backordered, so, when I called, I was offered something called Heatherstone. I've never seen it before, but the whole kit and kaboodle looks very nice.

Pictures will be forthcoming, but they'll have to wait until tonight until someone older than 3 is available to handle the camera.

And, for those that are going to the Chicago area kilt night on the 31st, I'll wear it then.

Brian