She wants it made the way I am going to make it for her. I am inclined to agree with you Matt and "vorpallemur", insofar as interior construction goes. I won't take tartan fabric to the sewing machine either. That just wouldn't be right!

I do have my ethics and principles........ Besides, I don't want to be responsible for the "turning over in the grave" of heroic Shaws of the bygone days of yore.

The Black Watch Monument has atop it the statue of a Shaw who was in the Regiment. I forget his first name. I was told this by an old Scotsman here who has been there and saw it up close.

It is located in Aberfeldy, Perthshire and was erected in 1887, to commemorate the first muster of the Regiment in that town in 1740. There were a lot of Shaws in the Regiment down through the centuries.

So you see, I have reasons to treat this fabric with reverence and respect. Not to insult it by taking it to the sewing machine.

Call me sentimental...........call me a fool, whatever.

Thanks to all for weighing in on my query.

Fide et Fortitudine, aye!

T.