Quick! I need a fix.

[Benning Boy]

Adding a pic of the kilt opened up. You can see the excess tartan on the underside of the pleats cut away, a pillow ticking reinforcement added across the pleats, and the hair canvas used to give the kilt shape. The black lining doesn't appear in the picture.

ETA: don't know what happened, but when I added the second picture the main body of the post disappeared. Anyway, the kilt is done, as seen in the first picture, and it's going in the mail today. Maybe by the end of the week it will be here.

[Stitchwiz]

Oooooh! Gorgeous!!!

Now you have to wait for the delivery truck...do you have any fingernails left?

[Benning Boy]

Not knowing what happened the last time I added a photo, I'll just make this new post with a pic of the sett.

It's in the mail. Estimated delivery Friday. Yeehaw!

[Dughlas mor]

Nice! A great looking tartan, can`t wait to see the finished product.

[ForresterModern]

Oooh, pretty. Me like. Very much.

Either you have a very "warm" lighting set up for your pics, or that is one very vivid tartan. Either way beeeeeautiful. Good thing it is an out of stock/limited run of tartan or I might start thinking about another future kilt. Great colors.

Congrats.

[Benning Boy]

Bonnie emailed the photos today. They do have a warm look, a bit like they might have some incandescent lighting on them, however the tartan is bright. The orange and gold really stand out. I'm partial to what I call sunset colors, and this tartan has sunset in it.

[bonnie heather]

The lighting definitely affects how the tartan colors look in the photos. It's always a dilemma. I'll try to edit them so they look as close as possible to the actual tartan colors. If it works, I'll post some pictures.

[Benning Boy]

Finally got the pictures I promised done today. Sunny days have been uncommon here for a while, and generally when the sun has shone The Woman has been at work. Today we had sunshine, and she was home, so now there are pics of Bonnie's wonderfully reworked Holyrood Golden Jubilee kilt.

The colors look fairly true, I think the camera automatically adjusted for the light conditions. However these pics were made later in the day, when our winter sun was sinking low. Not the best conditions for photographing true colors. The forum manage attachments function forced me to greatly reduce the size of these images and reduce the resolution considerably, so they aren't as sharp as they are in my photo editing program, but still reasonable representation.

Anyway, here they are.

A shot of the entire me. I left the sporran off so the pattern would be fully seen. A tight shot of the kilt apron showing the tartan full-on, and a dismal attempt at the Hamish, to give some idea of how it's pleated.

I've pretty well adopted Steve Ashton's idea if you match the hose and shirt, or in this case a sweater, you can pretty much wear any kilt in between. The hose and sweater in the shots are a creamy white, with brown flecks throughout. The sweater is English, the hose German. Never tried this combination before, but I think it works.

[James Hood]

Good on you, looks great.

And yes, Bonnie is a true wizard...seeing your pics does reinforce the reputation.