What do you do when there are nothing but severe thunderstorms all day?......Make a kilt. I went to a couple thrift stores this morning and found a couple nice pieces of wool, one is a symmetrical tartan that will be nice for something for my daughter and the other was an asymmetrical tartan that I figured might be enough to make myself a wool hiking kilt. I'm not to fond of cotton when there is a possibility of getting it wet. I don't like hypothermia. So here is my first one dollar kilt. It took even less time to make as I didn't have to make any marks on it as they were already there and I didn't have to sew the pleats. It sure beat cleaning the house.
The hardest part was joining the two pieces I cut because the tartan is asymmetrical. Just a few minutes of head scratching.
Three views of the completed project. It is a USAK casual replica in wool.
Tomorrow if not thunderstorming it will be somewhere in the Huachuca mountains. O'Neille
Originally Posted by billmcc
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