I was just looking around in the fabric section of eBay - not meaning to buy anything of course - and there was this pure wool worsted suiting which I just had to have - 4.2 metres.

Then I saw some purple tartenish cloth - and now I have a whole 18 metre bolt of it. The set is 8 inches

I can pleat it to the stripe three ways, and so get a light a medium and a dark version, so that will be keeping me busy for some time - and I won't be able to get the spacing wrong with the stripes to guide me. I'll just have to think of what to do with the rest whilst I am working.

I started off interested in making kilts, became addicted and now I think I might be getting obsessed.

I have spent more on clothing myself this month that in most previous years.