Picked up a tartan I'm really loving from a local fabric store. Liked the look of it when I bought, liking it more and more every day. It is *dark!* My family tartan is MacLeod of Lewis, so anything is comparably dark, but this has got to be some kind of Ancient or Hunting tartan. Been through Linda Clifford, House of Tartan, and I'm through the C's on one other I have written down at the house, with no luck in finding it. Not a 'normal' tartan by any stretch, so far as I can find.

So, here's the rub. It's either 96/4 or 94/6 wool/cotton, very nice weight (though I don't know the oz.) and I really don't want to screw it up. And I'm liable and likely to screw it up. I'm a knife maker, not a kilt maker, and black smithing doesn't exactly translate into sewing...

I have a photo of the tartan, and I'll upload it and post the link here to keep people's PCs from exploding. I have 2 1/2 yards of 58" plus another yard for the fly plaid, which is probably the only thing I'll make, aside from the flashes, without having a coronary...