Kilts and Related Stuff

I started thinking about kilts when I discovered or rediscovered that there is a tartan that was specifically designed for the officers and men who served in the Polaris Fleet Ballistic Missile Submarines stationed at Holy Loch near Dunoon, Argyle and Bute, Scotland. [more ...]

This is my second kilt, a blue corduroy Utilikilt. Dave, Nettie, and I are at the top of Sandia Peak above Albuquerque, New Mexico. Don't yet have any pictures of my first and third kilts. This picture was taken during the 2006 Balloon Fiesta.



In November of 2006 I found a very cool kilt pin.

I sewed my first kilt at a workshop run by Elsie Scott Stuehmeyer (author with Barbara Tewksbury of The Art of Kiltmaking). The workshop took five days in April 2008. The kilt was made from the better of two lengths of X Marks the Scot tartan (ITI 6679). I did document (more or less) the construction of that kilt.

As I write this (2009 March 13), I'm working on a second X-Marks kilt that is pleated to the stripe. What I learn by doing this kilt will, I hope, help me do an acceptable job of making a Polaris tartan kilt.

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