Originally Posted by
Jock Scot
Well done sir! I am glad it has all worked out well. In the interests of helping (nothing more) I put a stitch each side of the knot, rather than through the knot itself. It matters not really, but it is easier my way, I think and I put in the stitches in before the first dunking.
Out of interest, the MacPherson's hail from near the top of the Spey valley not the bottom. I thought I would get that in before our enthusiastic MacPherson, here, takes you to task!
I fancy that your bonnet is not quite the same colour as mine. Yours is rather less green in hue and your dicing is grey and white(ish) and mine is green and white(ish).
Super pictures and I look forward to the finished result picture with you and the appropriate drink to hand.
Jock, you have your wish...here goes!
"Before two notes of the theme were played, Colin knew it was Patrick Mor MacCrimmon's 'Lament for the Children'...Sad seven times--ah, Patrick MacCrimmon of the seven dead sons....'It's a hard tune, that', said old Angus. Hard on the piper; hard on them all; hard on the world." Butcher's Broom, by Neil Gunn, 1994 Walker & Co, NY, p. 397-8.
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