My neighbor, two doors down, gave me a pretty nice surprize last week. She made me a kilt!!!

I have had her sew down the fell on three SWK kilts, and she sees me in kilts all the time. I'm her go-to person for help around the house and with her computer, so it's a mutual aid thing. -But I never expected a kilt.

Since she had only ever examined a low-end SWK, that is what she made. She got the fabric from some store that sells tartan fabric to girls schools, and I don't yet know what, if any name it has. It is pretty though.

It's obviously a synthetic blend of some sort, but heavy cotton content. It's also pretty light-weight. It's entirely machine made, and has a stiffener of some sort in the waistband with velcro to fasten it.... Like a clone of the low-end SWK - which is what she had seen before, and probably thought that all kilts were like that.

I have worn it twice and the rear shot shows that the pleats need to be pressed, but it will make a very nice summer kilt.