My Army Tartan is here!!

[Livingston]

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As one of my personality flaws, I'm very much a child of the 21st century. I want it, and I want it now. So, it will be a good exercise in self control for me to finish this by hand.

Brian

Is it done yet, Brian?





Looking forward to seeing the results when you finish. Good luck.

[TheKiltedCoder]

Is it done yet, Brian?





Looking forward to seeing the results when you finish. Good luck.

No. And that's the problem!!

I was always the kid whose model airplanes looked horrid because I wanted to just slap them together and play with them NOW. So, they had model glue fingerprints all over the canopies, and the wings weren't snugged up into the fuselages correctly.

So, I'm really going to have to CONSTANTLY remind myself that rushing through this is only going to give me a crappy looking kilt and waste a good chunk of change.

Now, I have to send off for the hair canvas, as that appears to be something that Joanne's doesn't carry. I've also got some of the Joanne's tailors chalk (as opposed to the washout pencils), but, from the dire warnings in Barb's book, I'm half scared to try it. I may just bite the bullet and order some chalk Barb knows will work.

Brian

[fluter]

Now, I have to send off for the hair canvas, as that appears to be something that Joanne's doesn't carry.

See Vogue Fabrics in Evanston. They should be able to cover you on the Tailor's Pride hair canvas.

The "good" chalk is well worth getting. The stuff from Joann's does not seem to mark as easily, and I'm afraid there's some wax in it. Vogue has some other that looks more like the right stuff...

[TheKiltedCoder]

See Vogue Fabrics in Evanston. They should be able to cover you on the Tailor's Pride hair canvas.

The "good" chalk is well worth getting. The stuff from Joann's does not seem to mark as easily, and I'm afraid there's some wax in it. Vogue has some other that looks more like the right stuff...

I took a look at their website, and, though I'm local (for sufficiently large values of 'local'), we're going to be busy enough that getting to Evanston for the next couple of weeks will most likely be problematic. I think I'll just have to bite the bullet and pay both the shipping and sales tax to get Vogue to ship it to me cross-city.

The GoldStar chalk says that it's not oil or wax based, so we'll see how it works out.

Thanks for the pointer!!

Brian

[English Bloke]

Could you post your pics as you go along. It would be nice to follow the unfolding story. Would love to make a kilt myself but I can just about manage a half inch blanket stitch... Perhaps your efforts will inspire me.