Quote Originally Posted by beerbecue
Focus on the tartan, then focus on the weaver, then focus on who will make your kilt......
Talk about knocking one over the centerfield fences, but Beerbecue sure hit a homerun on this point.

Lots of us might be interested in an XMarks tartan and kilt, but not many of us can afford one on short notice. Putting a 2 or three month deadline on ordering and buying material is liable to kill the project before it takes off.

Matt, I'll wager that there's not many folks here who wouldn't prefer a wool kilt, whether box-pleated or knife-pleated. Unfortunately, the majority of us have trouble shaking loose $500.00 for a kilt as easily as $200.00-- 300.00.00, and that amount isn't easy for all of us. A synthetic material might not be as nice, but it is certainly more affordable. I've no problem with folks who want fine to order Wool, and the rest of us getting by with poly-vis, or other fabric.

Let's turn off the afterburners and slow down a little. If the project is going to fly at all, it is going to take TIME. Even if we decided on a tartan today, and placed an order with a mill on Monday, I'll bet it would be July or August before we see the cloth, and then it would be after Christmans before everyone got their kilt.

As a friend often says. Slow down, you'll get a more harmonious outcome.