Nor Cal Rabble-make-a-kilt-day

[Alan H]

I've proposed to the Usual Suspects that we have a rabble get-together for a "Make a Kilt Day". Date will almost for sure be one of the last two Saturdays in February. Location will be somewhere around San Jose, or possibly Santa Cruz... or somewhere in between. In other words....we're working on it. The tentative plan is to gather about 9:00 AM and start working. Of course there will be gabbing and distracted banter and general silliness. We'll break for lunch, then start up again. The goal is to have a completed kilt in hand by about 7 or 8 PM. Then we take pictures and eat dinner and probably drink whisky or whatever seems appropriate at the time.

There will be at least 3 people in attendance who have made various kinds of kilts before, and probably more like 4-5. I now that I have an "extra" sewing machine that I can bring for someone who doesn't have one. So there will be "expertise" on hand to help newbs over the thorny parts.

Now, lets' be realistic. You're not going to knock out an entire traditionally-made, "8 yard" wool kilt in one day. But what you CAN do is bang together an X-Kilt...or maybe get some remnants from Fraser and Kirkbright, and machine-sew up a nice casual, 6-yard pubbing kilt, or athletics kilt.... or maybe if you're really good, you can make a 4-5-yard box-pleated kilt if you don't go overboard on the details....or make a digicamo cotton-poly simple contemporary hiking kilt. Personally, I will be making an ankle-length kilt skirt in Hunting Stewart for Mrs. Farlander, partly as a way to say THANK YOU for the killah hilt hose she's knitting for me.

Whatever the case, we'll have fun. Where we hold the event depends in part on how many people want to come, so let me know if you're interested.