Good for you Patrick!
Making your own things is so satisfying, and things mean so much more, and make you feel proud to wear them. I took up tailoring when I was single and living on my own, I'd just get fed up of coming home from work and having nothing to do other that watching TV, so I started making shirts, then ties, now kilts. Good that you've got some help from your family. My sister is a upholsterer so gave me lots of encouragement. But the 'art of kiltmaking' is awesome. It really does make it easy, you just need a lot of time and a lot of patience. But its well worth it. I just hope now that I'm married my tailoring ambitions won't grind to a halt! Altho I have just made myself a matching bow tie. I plan on a waistcoat next.

Anyway, here's another few photo's I've just found. Brown Gillie Brogues are really hard to get and they're expensive., so I bought this reasonably priced pair and made myself some brown leather tassels and laced them with brown boot laces. I think they turned out pretty well
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