My purchase of two lots of fabric came today - the pinstripe is about equal to a 10 oz fabric and the tartan a little heavier, so not bad for the price. Both are 60 inches wide, neither is pure wool - but at the price, just a little over 2 UK pounds per running yard, averaging out the two rolls of fabric, how could I not buy them?

No sense in skimping at that price - far better to have some left over than running out.

Now I have to decide what to make from them - I think that the pinstripe would make a kilt and a cape - with the cape lined it should be warm enough for an English winter.

But the tartan - how to cut it - how to pleat it - oooo - decisions decisons.

I will have to look at it in daylight, but I am fairly sure that the base tartan is only an approximation of Black Watch, however the red and yellow stripes will take the attention.

Anne the Pleater