2 metres of X-Marks tartan; selvedge damaged

[Tartan Hiker]

My 2 meters was awaiting me when I got home from work today. Yipee!

Imagine my surprise when I opened the parcel to find 2.5 meters! The selvedge is as chewed up as any I've seen pictured here, but I cannot find any stains whatsoever, so that's just fine.

Now the problem. With that extra length (Thanks Gordon!) I could make a 5-yard knife pleat instead of a 4-yard box-pleat. Oh the anguish of yet another decision! What to do? What to do?

[Riverkilt]

Ian,

Its a higher level of jonesing when you don't know when to expect it....savor the jones.

Ron

[Chef]

Well my 4 metres, Gordon said he picked for me, is going directly to Steve @ FK so we will see what Steve says about it when he gets it.

[Panache]

Well my 4 metres, Gordon said he picked for me, is going directly to Steve @ FK so we will see what Steve says about it when he gets it.

If it is before he has his coffee what he says about it will be unprintable, but then again that goes for pretty much everything with Steve before he has had his coffee...



Cheers

Jamie

[ccga3359]

If it is before he has his coffee what he says about it will be unprintable, but then again that goes for pretty much everything with Steve before he has had his coffee...



Cheers

Jamie

Yeah! Steve needs a coffee patch. Slap one of them bad boys on before he goes to bed, when he wakes up he'll wake up almost human.

[Alan H]

Yah, I got a bit more than 2 metres as well. It comes out to exactly 2.25 yards. 81 inches...so if I don't waste an inch, and if I combine the two halves I can make a 4.5 yard knife pleat kilt.

six inch sett....uh...that makes 27 setts. I wind up with 15 setts to divide up into pleats, meaning 15 pleats. Nope, that's not really enough. Now, if I'd gotten 2.5 yards, so 5 yards when the halves were put together, then that'd be 30 setts and 18, maybe 19 pleats and then we'd be starting to talk, here.

But no....so a box-pleat it is.

[Chef]

on the mornings I'm up at three I prefer an IV...so i feel his pain.

[Aldisimo]

Riverkilt wrote:

Kathy Lare sewed up an X Marks tartan vest for me out of my remenants. Looks great.

I'd love to see a photo of you in both vest and kilt. Is one posted around here somewhere?

[Riverkilt]

Hmmm...okay Aldisimo...but ONLY because my mama lived in Austin and went to UT back in the 30s.



Pic taken on the Hopi Reservation near Low Mountain, AZ

Matt woulda cut the vest on the bias. Kathy did it level. Choices.

Ron

[Aldisimo]

That's a great looking set. Thanks for sharing!