Kilt Kamp 2008 @ the Scottish Tartans Museum

**Alan H** · 12th June 08, 04:47 PM

Oh, MAAAAAAANNNNNNNN. Jeez. I wanna be there.

**Ancienne Alliance** · 12th June 08, 08:25 PM

Great photos. Thank you for sharing.

**fluter** · 12th June 08, 08:42 PM

Originally Posted by McClef

Looks like some wonderful kilts are going to result from the kamp!

Woo-hoo, there are some gems taking shape here, and it's fun to watch & play along.

Originally Posted by Glen C

Matt, is that a moden Chisholm hunting I see on the table behind Andy? Looks like camp is a lot of fun.

There's no telling. Barb brought about 47 kilts to illustrate her points, plus the ones she's working on at the moment.

Originally Posted by SFCRick

great photos, looks like a nice time

Yup, we are having a small ball.

You are here:

But never mind, because for the next 4+ days, this is all you will see:

**emolas** · 13th June 08, 01:09 AM

Originally Posted by fluter

There's no telling. Barb brought about 47 kilts to illustrate her points, plus the ones she's working on at the moment.

I see a familiar tartan in a few of the pics.

and I can guess it's future owner...

I really wish I could have made it but all of my vacation time for the year was already allotted. Hopefully we can get next year's organized early enough so I can take vacation for it.

**Kilted in Maine** · 13th June 08, 06:32 AM

Originally Posted by emolas

I see a familiar tartan in a few of the pics.

and I can guess it's future owner...

I really wish I could have made it but all of my vacation time for the year was already allotted. Hopefully we can get next year's organized early enough so I can take vacation for it.

Emolas,

I just checked the ticker on the NHScot.org website - 3 months 8 days....Will it be ready???

I think you will be safe....

**bonnie heather** · 13th June 08, 01:28 PM

Nice pictures! It looks like everyone is having a great time. I wish so much that I could've been there, learning and sewing with you all.
Bonnie

**Splash_4** · 13th June 08, 05:37 PM

A group shot from today's festivities...

(Captain Panache, I beg to report that Ensign Splash has escaped from the trouser treatment center and is running around in shorts.....

)

**M. A. C. Newsome** · 13th June 08, 05:42 PM

Well the Friday Seminars were quite a success. To begin with, all the Kilt Kampers persisted in sewing right through till the end. Here's the proof:

We had several folks join us for the seminars who were not able to make it for the full week. Most of them fellow X Markers! See who you can recognize...

Barb started things off with a wonderful re-cap of kiltmaking 101, which was a very informative talk about kilts and kilt styles in general. Here she is showing a New Hampshire tartan kilt pleated both to stripe and to sett (yes, we provided tables, but she preferred to use the floor!):

Bob Martin next gave an enlightening slide-show presentation going over the history of the kilt. Lots of photos of old portraits and old kilts from various museum collections, and many Bob made himself over his 30+ year career. I didn't realize till I got home that I didn't get any pics of Bob's presentation. (Probably had something to do with the lights being out for the slides). But here he is beforehand, discussing the history of the Ross Hunting tartan with Barb. (Sorry for the back shot!)

Next, Steve Ashton (Wizard of BC) gave a two-hour long Freedom Kilts info-mercial... I mean, lesson on the contemporary kilt! (j/k Steve, though I do hope you got some orders out of the presentation). Let me say, after seeing these kilts in person, and learning about all that goes in to the construction of each one, I can definitely recommend Freedom Kilts most heartily to anyone considering a contemporary style kilt. You won't find better quality anywhere else).

Finally, I wrapped up the day with a history of the tartan, which I hoped the crowd found helpful. I dealt mainly with the development of the concept of "clan tartans" and tartan fashion both historically and today. Here I am talking about how we got the MacPherson clan tartan:

And just because I'm vain, another picture of me (actually I wanted to show off the hose my wife knit for me again!).

As I said, the kilt kampers kept on sewing throughout the presentations, and by the end of the day, many of them were almost done with their kilts. One, by Joel Gunn, was ready to wear to the Ceilidh tonight!

Joel and I had a nice chat about how good it is to wear something like this that you have made with your own two hands. He is very proud of his work, as he rightfully should be.

Finally, a shot of the collected rabble from X Marks who could make it.

Let's see... from left to right, that's TartanHiker, Greg Roth (Kiltman, I think your screen name is?), his lovely wife at his feet, me, Fluter, BarbT, Dave Dove, Archie & Joel Gunn, Splash4, and then in front Steve & Bobbie Ashton (WizardofBC and KiltedGnome).

Most of the rabble stuck around for the ceilidh and BBQ tonight but I stayed at the museum till about 7pm then had to head home to releive my patient wife who had been home with all four kids by herself since early that morning!

Speaking of which, time to get off this computer and put them to bed now!