Quote Originally Posted by way2fractious View Post
BTW, wsk, what possessed you to pick the hardest first project and pleat 16 oz XMarks tartan to the sett? You should be very proud of the kilt you made! (And I sincerely apologize for Elsie calling you "you-know-who". Teachers too often remember their "problem" students.)

w2f
So, for everyone else's benefit, in a PM to w2f, I wrote that Elsie had remembered him from the workshop that he took from her. Likely, this is because he made his kilt from Xmarks tartan, she very often called me by his name. I assume that this is the reason for his comment about problem students.

I picked the 16oz Xmarks tartan because I could get some of the Fraser & Kirkbright remnants without having to empty my wallet completely. And why to the sett? Precisely because it is harder - but with Elsie there to rap knuckles and keep me going in more or less the right direction that seemed the right choice at the time and in retrospect was the right choice.

Despite my somewhat disparaging remarks about the quality of the finished kilt, I'm quite happy with it. Wore it to the theater last Friday (a local production of Mel Brooks' "The Producers" - which I liked much better than the movie). It fits me better than just about every kilt I own and I love the swish of it. Walking up the hill to the theater with the setting sun behind me, it was a pleasure to watch my own shadow.