Isle of Skye kilt

[Kid Cossack]

Wow!

This is definitely not a case of the cobbler's children going shoeless! What a lovely pair of kilts! And your daughter's hose are smashing.

[Barb T]

Wow!

This is definitely not a case of the cobbler's children going shoeless! What a lovely pair of kilts! And your daughter's hose are smashing.

There are two companies (one in the UK and one in Ireland) that knit custom hose to match tartan. Well, of course there are more than that, but those are the two I know of. Mostly they do hose for Highland dancers, because matching hose are a required part of the competition uniform for all but beginning dancers. Some pipers wear them, but they are so expensive that most people who don't dance choose other hose!

Barb

[O'Neille]

That is a beautiful kilt. If I were your model I'd still be on the run with it. O'Neille

[jiminak]

My newest kilt is an Isle of Skye, but pleated to the sett. I love it. Everyone who sees it says they like it. Your customer is in for a real treat. I almost fear IoS is going to become common place among kilties, but there again, it's a great tartan and seeing more of it can only be a good thing. Well done on the kilt by the way, it looks fantastic.

Jim

[Alan H]

Oh

My


God.

*jaw hits floor*

SOMEDAY I'm gonna turn out a kilt that approaches that... I'm gonna, I'm gonna.

[wsk]

Fine. Just fine. I get to the post office and there in my box my copy of your book. And now it's obsolete - there's a second edition just round the corner! Argh!

Tis an elegant looking kilt.

[Barb T]

Fine. Just fine. I get to the post office and there in my box my copy of your book. And now it's obsolete - there's a second edition just round the corner! Argh!

No worries. The 1st edition won´t be obsolete. The only real difference with the 2nd edition will be a chapter on box pleated kilts (written with Matt Newsome), and I'm going to have a bunch extra of just that chapter printed up so that people who own the first book can buy just the box-pleat instructions separately for not much $$ and stick into the back of the first edition.

Barb

[JimB]

No worries. The 1st edition won´t be obsolete. The only real difference with the 2nd edition will be a chapter on box pleated kilts (written with Matt Newsome), and I'm going to have a bunch extra of just that chapter printed up so that people who own the first book can buy just the box-pleat instructions separately for not much $$ and stick into the back of the first edition.

Barb

Thank you Barb!
I for one gratefully appreciate that!
Especially since I'm trying to figure out a box pleat on my own right now.

[wsk]

... The 1st edition won´t be obsolete. ...

Started reading it last night. On page 11 you write:

"Men wore a belted plaid (pronounced played) ... which came to be called feileadh mór, ..."

In the next edition, can you include as part of the glossary of terms and stitches the pronunciation (both correct and Anglicized) of these words? I don't know about others but whenever I encounter non-English words in a text, I wish I knew how they were pronounced. This, probably because as I read I hear the words in my head. Not knowing proper pronunciation is a bit of a distraction.

[Barb T]

In the next edition, can you include as part of the glossary of terms and stitches the pronunciation (both correct and Anglicized) of these words? I don't know about others but whenever I encounter non-English words in a text, I wish I knew how they were pronounced. This, probably because as I read I hear the words in my head. Not knowing proper pronunciation is a bit of a distraction.

Sure! I'll see what I can do to find someone who really knows so that I get it right.

Barb