Well, I'm doing a throwing workshop/demo for the Guild at a couple of events this year and I just couldn't see throwing in a Great Kilt. I think I'd trip over all that fabric. I thought I'd make a feilidh-beig...little kilt....which might be "off" period-wise by a couple of decades from our nominal time frame, but since everything else seems to be a little "off" with this lot, I figured what the heck.

So I bought this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...d=210263228024

2.25 yards, for 8.99 and 6 bucks shipping off of ebay. Can't beat the price.

Now, it's not woven in a twill pattern, so that's too bad. Also, one thin line in the pattern does not match. It's sort of a buff orange going one way, and a dark tan, going the other. However, the stuff is actually, absolutely gorgeous. It turned out to be a very high quality wool with a killer kilting selvedge. I've cut it out, joined the pieces, finished the edges, folded it up to make 17 pleats, and tonight I'll probably stitch in the pleats along the belt line and gently press something like folds into the pleats. I'm not gonna go to town on it, it's supposed to be kind of primitive.

I absolutely love the color of the tartan. I would *love* to have this in a "real" kilt. Alas, as it is not twill, it shall not be. However, it'll make a killer throwing kilt, and knockaround.

Pics tomorrow, or tonight. I think I will have invested all of about 3 hours and thirteen dollars in this, when it's done. See, I used leftover thread from Mom's stash, I didn't even have to buy the thread.