Black Friday

[Brian F]

So, I went out with the women-folk to do the post-Thanksgiving shopping thing, which meant an early morning stop at Jo-Ann fabrics. Wool suitings were 50% off, so I was looking pretty heavily. They had one bolt of Royal Stewart (or at least a close copy), but it had less than 1.5 yards on it. However, I did find this:



So, with 5 yards, and 58" width to play with, I should be churning out my first acrylic wool box-pleat over Christmas break, as well as getting my camouflage kilt finished.

I'm going to pleat this to the red stripe, simply so more red shows up (because I need to find something to wear my fire-engine red hose with). I'll get a project post up for both kilts (and any others) up once I get them done.

DIY JONES!!!

[James MacMillan]

Nice! Any idea what tartan it is?

[Fedgunner]

Look at an X-Kilt...good learning and you have a good bit left over

[Brian F]

Nice! Any idea what tartan it is?

No. I've taken to referring to it as "new kilt plaid" until I decide on a more proper name.

BTW, figured it out, 5 yards cost me $31 total. Gotta' love it.

~Yeti

[McMurdo]

Very cool, good luck with it.

[James MacMillan]

Does your flic show the colors pretty true? Greys, black, red and white?

Too bad there isn't a good way yet to reverse engineer a kilt pattern...... someday?

[Brian F]

Does your flic show the colors pretty true? Greys, black, red and white?

No, the "white" stripe is actually a light gray. But all other colors are true.

Too bad there isn't a good way yet to reverse engineer a kilt pattern...... someday?

/me is confused by this statement

[Arizona Scot]

Looks very nice can't wait to see the finished pics.

[cacunn]

Does your flic show the colors pretty true? Greys, black, red and white?

Too bad there isn't a good way yet to reverse engineer a kilt pattern...... someday?

You can go to the Scottish Tartan Authority and using the Tartan Ferret

http://www.tartansauthority.com/Web/...rchintroc2.asp

and enter the color order to search for a tartan.

[James MacMillan]

/me is confused by this statement

What I meant was, say you have an unknown piece of tartan, and you want to find out what it is.

Cacunn says:

You can go to the Scottish Tartan Authority and using the Tartan Ferret

http://www.tartansauthority.com/Web/...rchintroc2.asp

and enter the color order to search for a tartan.

But I have had less than satisfactory results using it. Maybe I just haven’t figured out the way to do it yet?