Leatherneck tartan, he shoots, he scores!

[Kid Cossack]

Gents and ladies:

After hearing about dalvreckreading's auction, I moseyed on over to e-bay, where I found that someone else was already bidding on it. I thought the bidder's name looked familiar, and lo and behold, it was "our" very own Barb T.!

I contacted Barb and asked if I could piggyback my order onto hers, and she suggested flip-flopping, and piggybacking her order onto mine.

The long and the short of it is: we won!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MakeTrack=true

Gee, you know, if I've won this tartan, and Barb's in for four yards (double width), and I'm having it shipped to her for her division of the material, do you think maybe I ought to go ahead and try and negotiate with her for my first real tank?

HA HA HA HA HA!

A good day.

[McMurdo]

Congratulations on the score, I would think sending it all to Barb and having her make your tank is a great idea.

[Kid Cossack]

Almost a perfect confluence of events:

a) my clan colors
b) sixteen ounce
c) I don't have a tank yet
d) I went in with Barbara Tewksbury (!!!) on the deal

Yup, I think I'm going to see if she'll do it.

[McMurdo]

It sounds like it was meant to be.

[Tattoo Bradley]

You've probably already thought of this. But, if you and Barb are each wanting enough cloth for one kilt each. And, this is double width... you could just order the 8 yards doublewidth and each of you (you and whoever she's making the the other one for) could have an 8 yard kilt made of an 8 yard length of continuous cloth; no join. I think I would definitely go with Barb for that one.

[Kid Cossack]

Brad:

DING DING DING DING! You guessed it! Actually, I'm ordering ten yards of fabric, with the secret sneaky squirrel goal of ending up with two double width yards left over, to have made up into a Matt Newsome box pleated kilt.

I figure then I'll have all my possible weather bases covered: the five yard thirteen ounce USAK for warm weather, a four yard box pleat Newsome kilt for general purposes and a frickin' TANK for cooler climes. I'd be set for, as the hymn goes, "any clime or place."

[turpin]

Now that was some smart shopping.

Be prepared to pay a 25% duty on the cloth. Based on my own recent experience. However, UPS only charged a $5 brokerage fee, not $25 like fedex