Pre-Jonesing

[Jerry]

About a month or so ago, I emailed Jerry at Stillwater and asked if they were going to offer their heavyweight in the shadoe tartan this year. he sent me a reply that it would be offered this spring. Now, I am pre-jonesing. I check the Stillwater site at least 3 times per day. Hey, it's almost Spring, really it is, isn't it? I keep thinking about that "hidden tartan".I found myself checking out a pair of slacks a woman was wearing at the eye doctors yesterday. Was that a dark tartan I could see across the waiting room? I was just about to the point of walking over, when they called me back to the exam room. Jerry, I hope you get those new heavyweights out soon, I think I'm starting to see things. The dreams will probably be next. I wonder if I can dream in tartan?

[mddock58]

I'm also waiting for the Shadow Tartan, my wife likes it, so it will probably be the next one I purchase.

But I have to wait, since I just got a BW Standard.

[Prester John]

Don't tell my son...he'll demand one for his birthday, early of course, and wear it to church weekly.

[GMan]

Just 3 times daily Jerry? I thought that you were pre-jonesing!

Somehow I know just what you are going through

[Iolaus]

About a month or so ago, I emailed Jerry at Stillwater and asked if they were going to offer their heavyweight in the shadoe tartan this year. he sent me a reply that it would be offered this spring. Now, I am pre-jonesing. I check the Stillwater site at least 3 times per day. Hey, it's almost Spring, really it is, isn't it? I keep thinking about that "hidden tartan".I found myself checking out a pair of slacks a woman was wearing at the eye doctors yesterday. Was that a dark tartan I could see across the waiting room? I was just about to the point of walking over, when they called me back to the exam room. Jerry, I hope you get those new heavyweights out soon, I think I'm starting to see things. The dreams will probably be next. I wonder if I can dream in tartan?

Will it be offered only in HW?

On a related note, at the QM games last week, some ladies commented on my Nightstalker, saying that, from a distance, it looked like a solid color, 'til they got up close. They really liked it.

[646guy]

Oh great is this another kilt to add to my wish list?

[NewKilt]

I have that SWK black heavyweight. Mines the 13 oz acrylic version. Don't know if the new ones will be 16 oz wool or still be acrylic. Anyway, that shadow tartan is pretty unique. You don't see it unless you are up close, and the light is striking the kilt at the correct angle. I still don't know whether to call it a solid or a tartan. I guess it's sort of both, and it's one of my favorite kilts - it feels like it was taylored for me. Well worth the pre-jonesing.

Darrell

[NewKilt]

On a related note, at the QM games last week, some ladies commented on my Nightstalker, saying that, from a distance, it looked like a solid color, 'til they got up close. They really liked it.

Same here. I've had people say that from a distance, it looked solid black, as they got closer, it looked like a solid charcoal, and then they noticed it was black and grey when they got up close. I like to wear it with a grey polo, grey hose, and red flashes for a dash of color.

Darrell

[Pleater]

Trawling through the cloth stash for possible kilt lengths, and this time I actually emptied the cupboard - I found a man made fabric which is very like that 'dark tartan'. It is dark grey and darker grey and black - I think or perhaps all shades of grey - but definitely a square tartan pattern and I think it was a piece intended to make a man's suit - although lighter than most fabric I have used, it should make a traditional kilt length - though I am thinking of making a waistcoat as well - though waiting to be able to make a smaller size than I am at present.

I also found a heavy wool mix almost Royal Stuart - the pattern is oblong rather than square, but it should look good enough made up, a lighter weight wool in blues and purples and several other lengths of cloth I can't even remember buying which will make suitable tunics and maybe even Jacobite - ish shirts. I'll have to modify the cuffs for just one or two buttons - some of my stage gear has seven buttons on the cuffs, and they were a pain.

I really must look through my old clothes and see what has survived and might be suitable, now that I am growing ever less in circumference. I know I have some really good leather and suede skirts - they might make pouches or handbags now - no matter how thin I get I am never going to wear anything as short as that again.

What I really must do is speed up production - I have so many Kilts half done or half undone - I am reduced to wearing the first one I made, now remade smaller, with all others requiring adjustment or completion.

The problem is that as soon as I finish one I just HAVE to go out to show it off, take a few good long walks and find it hanging a little low due to a little more fat being burnt off - and less sewing done than ever.


Ah well - it only means that I am a little closer to the 0.6inches of separation on my pleats.

[CameronTaylor]

I have to send my Pride of Scotland back again, this time it's actually a 34 as it was supposed to be but it still doesn't fit. I don't know why two 34 kilts allegedly made the same place can be so different (the Irish National fits great) but the other ... The pleats on the left just hang weird, the ones on the right end 2 and a half inches from the edge of the apron. This is better than the first time when it was 4 inches but still unacceptable.
Back in the bag, back to the post office, wait for a 36, hope this one is the one. Would have been a great friday to have a new kilt to wear.


CT - screw it, I'm gonna take a nap.