Making my first kilt

[Steve Ashton]

In kiltmaking this sense of the second child reduced panic is actually the reverse.

With the first kilt you have a choice. You can actually stop. Put down the needle and thimble and never make another kilt.

But the moment you even start to think about making a second one, you are doomed. The addiction has already set in and there is nothing you can do.
Soon you will find excuses outside of Highland dance that a kilt can be worn. Then all the other non-dance Tartans will begin their siren call.

No longer will you be able to walk into an Italian restaurant without wondering what Tartan that is on the tables. Soon, you will begin looking at pleated butts not for what is in them but to see how the pleats are pressed.

Run away! Run away! As fast as your legs can carry you. Your life as you have known it is over.

Lady, put down the needle and step slowly away from the Tartan.