I forsee the day

[Alan H]

...when I whittle my kilt collection down to just the ones I made and really love.

The Really Nice Tanky Ones:

The X-Marks tartan kilt (13 ounce wool, 6 yards)
The Ancient MacNaughton (still to be made, also 13 ounce, 8 yards, and will be for "dress-up")
The California tartan box-pleat (16 ounce, I LIVE in this kilt, I swear. I love it.)

The Made-By-Me "lighterweights"...summer-weight kilts

The Lindsay (11 ounce poly-wool, 6 yard, machine-sewn)
The Gray Stewart (11 ounce wool, 7 yards, currently under construction, but will be hand-sewn pleats)
The Hall, modern box pleat (4 yards of 11 ounce material sitting "in the hopper" and will be mostly machine-sewn...gotta have a kilt in my "other" clan tartan)

The Oddball, much like its owner/maker.

The Modern MacNicol 7 yard (my first "traditional" kilt...bit small for me now but I could do some "adjusting". It's not made out of kilting wool tartan, it's a fuzzy saxony, and wowee is it WARM.)

One Purchased kilt for knockaround and throwing and the Games

The Caledonia Kilts 5-yard polyester-viscose Weathered MacNaughton (My default "Games" kilt, because it's my primary Clan tartan and it's lightweight.)

And two X-Kilts

The predator camouflage
The charcoal hemp/recycled polyester "variant" X-Kilt (this material is ruddy gorgeous, I love it)

Ten Kilts. Enough.

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I will probably sell the 5-yard Holyrood, the self-made gray tartan kilt from Fraser and Kirkbright, and my USA kilts casual. The Gold Brothers Scottish National will go as well. I might give it to my local Highland Athletes group to have on hand in case a walk-on shows up and wants to throw.

I suppose if my cousin doesn't get off his backside and buy some hose and a sporran soon, I'll wind up with the wool Royal Stewart 5-yard I made for him as well, we'll see.

The days of "acquire, acquire" are over, well, except maybe for some colored hose. There are 5-6-7 tartans I'd kind of "like" but do I really NEED more kilts? No. That goes double when the Capercaillie tartan, the only other one I'd *really* like to own, is $70 a yard for single-width...OUCH. Forget it. I have several kilts for formal occasions and a mess of kilts for wear "around town", including backpacking and hiking.

I think that it's kind of cool that when I'm done, all the kilts I own will be ones that I made, except for one. I might go get 3 yards of PV Weathered MacNaughton someday and machine-sew up a kilt from it, just so I can say I made ALL my kilts.

[Panache]

I have found that I am less and less looking forward to my next kilt as I am to opportunities to go out there in the world and wear them like the ballet, golfing, hiking, and the symphony.

My sturdy Predator X kilt, the twin to yours, is obviously made for some rugged paths!

Cheers

Jamie

[chasem]

I'm with you, Alan. I've had a few kilts aside from the one I currently own (and made). There's just something about having done it yourself. I plan to have a couple others in my tartans (maclachlan/macewen), and an isle of skye and a black watch, and then I'm probably finished as well. Probably 5-8 tops.

It's just nice knowing that you did (and cheaper)

[GDub]

The obsession for more kilts has to subside at some point... I hope.

Alan, where did you get the hemp/recycled polyester fabric? If I actually get around to making a X-Kilt this year a material recommended by the X-Kilt man himself might just be the ticket.

[Jake_S]

I'm still in the acquire stage. I have 3 kilts, my tiger stripe camo x-kilt, my AK khaki, and my SWK Weathered McKenzie standard.

I want to get a trad 8 yard in Fleming tartan (my family tartan), but thats a $900 kilt before shipping, so that one is a long ways off.

And I want to get a WPG Cameron tank, and various other tartans that I find interesting.

Jake

[george7]

I'm happy with just 5 kilts... I'm happy with just 5 kilts, I'm happy with just 5 kilts... -sigh- I'll be back. I'm out to the Internets to check on some deals.

[Detroitpete]

Alan,

I really appreciate that view. I'm a fly fisherman. I tie my own flies and I prefer to use my handmade bamboo rod. Something about the act is just 'sweeter'.

Now about your to-be-distributed collection...perhaps a 38 waist, 22 long (think troll) lurking in there? :-)

Just joking, but GREAT idea about donating to another athlete. I've begun taking extra kilts to the games as well.

[pdcorlis]

I foresee the day when Alan decides 12 is the right number of kilts...

[kevinkinney]

Yeah,

I see the need to limit myself. Making kilts is fun, but somewhat expensive as far as hobbies go.

3 or 4 dozen sporrans seems doable though....not to mention 2 coordinated jackets per kilt.

Kevin

[Sammac]

Don't know how many is enough yet. The more I wear a kilt, the more I want to wear them!