I'm knocking together a 6-yard, machine sewn kilt for my friend and throwing mentor, Mike Pockoski. The tartan is Holyrood. This will be his throwing kilt.

I'd forgotten that the Marton Mills PV doesn't have a finished selvedge, so I pondered the option of leaving the fringed edge like USA Kilts does, but decided to tuck up a little hem instead. This one is pleated to stripe, 23 of them. I'll fit it out with one buckle on each side, no velcro here.

When I offered to make Mike a kilt last winter, he spent a couple of weeks browsing the 'net. He decided that he liked Holyrood and a couple of other tartans, and then he discovered the Holyrood Gold Jubilee tartan. THAT was "the one". Well....that particular tartan was only woven in rather small amounts and it cost a MINT. So that got put off.

A couple of months later, this past summer, I was browsing ebay and found that there was a kiltmaker in Scotland offering Holyrood Golden Jubilee kilts for, like $290. This tartan is ONLY available in 16 ounce wool (I believe) so I messaged Mike right away. There was NO way I could match that price. Mike was in Scotland at the time, doing the Games circuit, and the kiltmaker was only about a mile from the house he was staying at. So he went down there and ordered the kilt. I assume that the guy got the tartan on a massive discount, it probably didn't sell very well, or something. The kilt arrived about two months ago and I must say...WOW. It looks great.

But there's no way he's going to wear that on the field! NO WAY! I made his wife Mindy make him promise not to. So Mike is getting a PV "regular" Holyrood 6-yarder to replace his utterly trashed Pakistani Royal Stewart, which is 4-5 inches too small on him, anyway. Merry Christmas, Mike. Mike and I are almost exactly the same size (so why don't I throw as far as he does, right? HA!) so maybe I can strap it on for some pics before I mail it off to N.C.

I'll grab some pics of the kilt in progress on my kitchen table, too, next time I lay it out and work on the pleat tapers.