Matt's box-pleat specials

[Mael Coluim]

With Matt’s special offer I nabbed the St. Patrick tartan. It was an impulse buy. I had ordered with Matt a box pleat in the Columba tartan earlier in the summer. The Columba tartan was created by Peter MacDonald in 1997 to commemorate the 1400th anniversary of St. Columba’s death.

I couldn’t resist the opportunity to have the tartans of the Celtic Saint of Ireland, Patrick and the Celtic Saint of Scotland, Columba.

Just before seeing Matt’s web offer, I received an email from the genealogist of the Clan MacCallum Malcolm Society that my DNA sample showed an ancestral match more to an Irish origin than the Scots! A confirmation in making the order.

[Galician]

I nabbed Matt's American Bicentennial tartan. I'm having a fly plaid hemmed from the cloth remaining. This will be my first box pleat and the first from Matt. Won't say that I can't wait, but I do look forward to it.

Now I'm wondering what would be a good color hose to match that. Of course, if I wear it mostly in the summer, maybe that's a moot point.