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    Alan ! You've got to stop this now.

    If the kiltmakers figure this out they're all going to quit and go get jobs as boring IT Project Managers. (I can say that because I ARE one.) If that happens then all the sewingly challenged folks like me will just be out of luck.

    Seriously, I don't know how they do it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by starbkjrus View Post
    Alan ! You've got to stop this now.

    If the kiltmakers figure this out they're all going to quit and go get jobs as boring IT Project Managers. (I can say that because I ARE one.) If that happens then all the sewingly challenged folks like me will just be out of luck.

    Seriously, I don't know how they do it.
    Remember Pittsburgh Kilts? Jeff was a GREAT guy and from what I have seen, a very solid kiltmaker (pun intended), but he threw in the towel a couple years ago to go back to HIS I.T. job. The money just wasn't there to support his family.


    Thanks Alan for the "non-biased" breakdown of how long things take.

    TO clarify 1 little point, it takes ME 20 to 26 hours to get a Premier kilt done, and that's WITH machine sewing the pleats "inside out" so you don't see stitching. How any traditional kiltmaker says s/he can get 2 OR 3 done in 1 day is full of it... unless they have 5 or 6 people working for them. Then MAYBE they can geta a few done in a day.

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