Proud winner of STM Kilt Raffle 2010

**piperdbh** · 14th January 11, 01:20 PM

Originally Posted by mj_all

piperdbh...45 min north of New Albany in Seymour.

If you know any Lockharts in the area, they're my people.

**The Barry** · 14th January 11, 05:10 PM

Congrats! Remember to post pics!

**Mike_Oettle** · 17th January 11, 12:37 PM

Hi, MJ, and congratulations.
I also had my eye on the prize kilt, but my wife decided against sending money overseas – she reckoned it would be a waste.
And that was after I pointed out that it would cost less per month (if I took a $5 ticket each month) than her Lotto tickets, which have never won her anything more than three figures (of South African money, that is).
Maybe I will have better luck this year – I expect Matt will have a similar raffle again, and then there is Nick Fiddes’s Scotweb promotion, too.
Yours in good fortune,
Mike

**chewse** · 17th January 11, 01:33 PM

You are a very lucky winner mj_all. Not only are you getting a free kilt but Barb T. is making it for you! Outstanding, congratulation! Please post pictures.

**SkyeKilt** · 17th January 11, 01:44 PM

Welcome to X-Marks -

What a wonderful way to start your Kilted Life -

Carl -

**Mudge** · 18th January 11, 02:37 PM

Thanks for the kind words...I'm a Mike too...Maybe you should try making your own kilt. I made one for me. It's not perfect, but it works.

Mike

**Mudge** · 18th January 11, 02:42 PM

Jeff,

Wanna know something weird?? Late last summer, I googled "Allen 1996 tartan" and found a picture and printed it off. I wanted to see what the kilt would look like and ...You are in the pic...and we may be related...how crazy is that??? Do you have any Abige, Bige, Roady, America's in your family tree from Indiana or Kentucky???

Mike

**ForresterModern** · 18th January 11, 06:31 PM

Originally Posted by mj_all

Jeff,

Wanna know something weird?? Late last summer, I googled "Allen 1996 tartan" and found a picture and printed it off. I wanted to see what the kilt would look like and ...You are in the pic...and we may be related...how crazy is that??? Do you have any Abige, Bige, Roady, America's in your family tree from Indiana or Kentucky???

Mike

Mike

As I said our two Allens will probably be the only two in common existence, although somebody had to have it woven for registration, so there might be a couple more around. It is not exactly surprising that you found mine probably from my kilt review posted here. I have worn it several times but no pics.

My Allens were from the western part of Virginia, what is now West Virginia, and stuck up in the southern hills, although some of them may have gotten out and come west in the 1900s. Don't know of any specifically though. Sorry but none of those names rings any particular geneological bells.

jeff