If I were to write out directions, who would make a mini-kilt?

[ccga3359]

I've been carryin' a hankerin' fer a sewin' machine. If only I had a few more dollars. Aww phooey! If I had a few more dollars it'd probly go toward a kilt 'nsted of a sewin' machine!

If you buy a man a drink, he'll be drunk tonight,
If you teach a man to brew...
he'd be very happy tomorrow, or something like that.

[ccga3359]

From the XMarks header;

X Marks the Scot is an international community of kilt wearers and those who encourage the wearing of kilts. Kilts are a man's garment and it is our goal to promote the wearing of the kilt in more than just the "Highland Games" situation.

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Alan, I'll respect your decision but I have to ask of those who've made an X-kilt, if making one has ever prevented them from buying a kilt from one of our sponsors?
I for one have used a sewing machine. I could most probably whip of an X-Kilt that would be acceptable to wear in general public. Yet currently I have two kilts on order. $500 I can actually ill-afford right now, yet I want properly and professionally made top quality kilts. Yes I could make half a dozen X-Kilts and by the fifth or sixth they would most definitely be a marked improvement over the first and yet that would still not prevent me from purchasing from a professional kilt maker in the future.
I realize that the X-Kilt is a contemporary kilt and that none of our sponsors make a product even similar to the design. But this garment was designed to be easy to build. The style of the X-Kilt is similar in looks to that of a kilt manufacturer that is not a sponsor here but I highly doubt that any X-Kilts made by our members have even cut into the sales of that same manufacturer.
So comes the kilted skirt that, obviously, has raised the concern of someone or even some people. I must ask, bearing in mind that, these plans have not even been drawn up yet! Just whom these skirts would be competing with? How much of this sponsors product line is even kilted mini skirts? Just as the X-Kilt competes with no sponsor's product, perhaps this new skirt design will compete with no sponsors current product. After all this skirt is from the same drawing table and mind as the X-Kilt.
But Alan goes on to say that this manual was given approval. So then can this indeed be correct that a forum that is all about encouragement of the kilted lifestyle must stop short of encouraging another to build his or her own kilt? I, for one, cannot see how this the dissuading of DIY encouragement is beneficial to this forum.

[LK-13]

If you buy a man a drink, he'll be drunk tonight,
If you teach a man to brew...
he'd be very happy tomorrow, or something like that.

build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a night.

SET A MAN ON FIRE AND HE'LL BE WARM FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE!!

[LK-13]

you know,
reading is the single most important skill any person can have.
point of fact if you can't read an on line forum is really useless.

now should some one make a post suggesting someone GO TO THE LIBRARY and look up instruction on the subject of Kilt Making,
or if a person did a GOOGLE SEARCH on the subject and found the directions else where...

would this upset a sponsor?

i mean there are tons of books and websites about every subject,
so what is the difference?

other than sending a forum member elsewhere and there by harming the forum
I don't see anything else being accomplished.

I was talking with a person at a local leather working supply shop yesterday
about making my own Sporran,
so if I do, and become good at it,
and make Sporrans for others or post directions for DIY;
am I going to be rubbing a sponsor the wrong way?

causing harm to a forums membership doesn't seem like something a sponsor should be doing.