I am glad that I started this thread. Thank you all for your varied comments!

Richard, I really like that blue camo in your picture. Generally, I am impressed by anyone who makes their own 'stuff', so to speak. Not to bring ham radio up yet again, but fabricating one's equipment is an age old tradition amongst amateurs that harkons back to a time when items had to be made or one did without, mostly because no one was manufacturing the parts necessary to build transmitters and receivers. That tends to breed the same resourcefulness that I am seeing here amongst many of my fellow list members. I find it very cool that so many on this list are kiltmakers, paid or otherwise.

Right now my wife is in the other room, messing about with the sewing machine. Once she gets a better handle on the basics, I'll see if I cannot get her going on something with pleats. Maybe I should see about getting her a kilt kit of some sort to get her confidence up.

Mychael