Slainte!

[MacMullen]

Just wanted to introduce myself. I'm both new to the board and new to kilts. I've lurked here on this site for a couple of weeks, and appreciate all of the advice that I've received in my searches of your posts.

By way of explanation, I'm mostly German in my heritage, my last name is Fleischer. But my username was selected in honor of the one Scot in my family tree back in 1840, my great-great-great-great-great-grandmother.

As a result of my Scottish "heritage" I've been invited to a Burns Dinner this month, which led to my search for a kilt so as to be properly attired. Well, $25/yard for the MacMillan tartan is a little hard to swallow on short notice, so I found some Black Watch tartan at a local fabric store and my wife is currently hard at work sewing my first kilt. I have to brag on her a bit, as she's made eight suits for me from scratch, so she didn't want me to go out and buy a kilt if she could make it.

Besides, at 6'10" tall, I'm a little hard to fit off the rack, hence the custom fit suits.

My avatar is, obviously, the MacMillan crest. The avatar itself is from the label that I made for my homebrewed Scottish Ale, which, btw, I'm enjoying as I type this. Otherwise, biographically, my call is as a Lutheran Pastor and I'm in the Kayak business on the side.

I can't wait for my first kilt to be finished, can't wait to go to the Burns Dinner (although the idea of Haggis makes me a little queasy), and I'm especially looking forward to having my wife make me some more kilts in my traditional clan tartans, and, maybe picking up a Stillwater Shadow kilt and another kilt in a clergy tartan.

Anyway, like I said, I just wanted to introduce myself and say that I'm looking forward to getting to know you all here. I'll post pics from our Burn's Dinner, which is coming up on November 18th.

[Iolaus]

Welcome.

6'10"? Yeah, that might be hard to find. I'm not sure you'd be happy with a Stillwater, but they do have a good return policy if it's too short.

Haggis? it's just a type of sausage, ...and you don't really want to know what's in other sausages either! ;)

[MacMullen]

Sausage in a BIG natural casing I guess. That helps! Thanks!

As a result of my German heritage I'm very familiar with (but not a fan of) head cheese and blood sausage (Thanks Grandma!), so I'm sure I can handle haggis.

Are the SW kilts hemmed? My wife is also very familiar with alterations.

[Iolaus]

http://pro.channeladvisor.com/storef...9&aid=15162781

"• Bottom edge is traditional selvedge, not hemmed"

[MacMullen]

Yeah, now that you post that, I remember reading that. :sad:

Well, for the price, if it doesn't fit, I could always pass it on to one of my friends to introduce one of them to the kilt.

[Iolaus]

From MacMullen's webpage:

...To remedy the situation my wise and understanding wife suggested that we put $2,000 of the insurance settlement down on a new car (a `93 Intrepid), and use the remaining $2,500 to pay for the Jeepster rebuild. : )

THERE'S a keeper!! A wise woman indeed! ;)

Here's my toy, but delete the running boards; I took them off long ago.

[highlander_Daz]

"I'll post pics from our Burn's Dinner, which is coming up on November 18th."

its a little early for Burns -are you sure its no a Saint Andrews day celebration??

[Southern Breeze]

Welcome to X-Marks.Let the addiction begin.:-D

[Graham]

Welcome Joel, glad you stopped lurking and jumped in.
I've always thought that a tall man looked better kilted than a short man (eg. Liam Neeson in Rob Roy), if that is true then you will look better than most kilted. I'm 5'3" but I can get into small spaces :razz:

Is Lamar far from Denver? there are a couple of kilted lads there. I was there for a church convention last July.

You may have seen the thread on the vegetarian haggis, we had a function recently with the Pipe Band, we found a lot of people preferred my wife's veggie haggis to the "real" one, even though they ate meat.
from all reports the meat haggis was not a good one.

Anyway, good to see you here!

[jfellrath]

Hi Joel,

Welcome aboard the good ship X Marks.

I don't know this for sure, but you may be the first Yooper on the board! There are a number of us Lowpers/Trolls around, including some who have since moved out of the state.

You might want to check out this thread on kilting in the cold - you'll have need for it soon, unless the U.P. has changed since I was there last.

Jamie

(For all those unaware - Michigan is separated into two peninsulas: the Upper and Lower. "Yoopers" are from the U.P., and "Lowpers" are from the lower peninusla. And the "troll" comment comes from the idea that Lowpers live "under the bridge", the bridge in this case being the Mackinac Bridge that connects the two peninsulae.)