Photos from Kilt Kamp 2013

[creagdhubh]

Well done, Mike and congratulations!

Cheers,

[creagdhubh]

Here are more photos from Kilt Kamp2013.
Tools of the trade: wool tartan (This is Pollock tartan), wide ironing board, wooden clapper, steamer

I'm busy working on my Macpherson red muted while wearing my Macpherson modern hunting.


So many tartans, so little time.

I LIKE WHAT I'M SEEING HERE!!! Well done!

Na bean don chat,

[Barb T]

A few more photos from Kilt Kamp!

These are the die-hards! Even though KK was over on Thursday night, the folks below stayed on Friday to work some more on kilts! From l to r, Grizzled Ian, Stephane, Barb T, hhastings, and Okiwen. [Barb's shirt says, "Airborne Pipes - Piobaireachd From Above"]



Some "GrizzledIanisms" - my personal favorite was his self-analysis of a pleat that he'd just stitched that had a not-so-straight stripe....



And the all-time favorite stabilizer fabric of the Kamp - Hello Kitty, thanks to the outstanding good taste of hhastings:



Okiwen laying out a Kingussie kilt in Hudson Bay Company tartan:

[Mike in Dayton]

This is a great illustration of a kilt that is constructed to sit lower at front than in rear (the uppermost white horizontal line demonstrates the difference). I hesitate to use the term "gut cut" as you don't seem to need that, based on the pressing photo! Nevertheless the kilt photo is a classic and should "live" and be used as example whenever the topic comes up. Nicely done!

I made this kilt to sit lower then the traditional kilt. I have a little bit of a belly so some slope adjustment was required. Had to adjust the slope in the front to keep from cutting into the white line in the middle of the apron. If I recall the rear slope is +0.75" and the front is -1.5".

Mike

[Standard]

Looks like another very successful Kilt Kamp. I hope to be able to attend one of these years!

[Grizzled Ian]

Barb, thank you for putting up the extra photos.

I am sending this from LA airport, waiting to re-board QF108 from NY to Sydney and leaving this great country with regrets that I could not stay longer. Discounting the time in Clinton NY, I covered 3,000 miles in ten days of touring around in my little black Kia, and the roads are top-notch, except in NYC.

Steve asked early during the camp if I had any observations. Here are two.
* by some quirk of magic, all the "ugly Americans" are out of the country, everybody I met was friendly, helpful and welcoming,
* everywhere on the dual-carriageway, at least two lane roads, there was a constant stream of traffic, all exceeding the speed limit by at least 10mph. I reckon summer must be prime-time for house burglaries, because everyone must be on the road. Except in NYC.

Thanks Barb and Steve, and my wonderful Ko-Kampers, it has been an experience I will never forget.

Hope to see you in Oz some time!

[Mike in Dayton]

Ian,

Safe travels back home. I am glad you choose to spend a week with us at Kilt Kamp. I enjoyed our conversations. I hope our paths cross again.

Mike

[Dani Mac]

Ian,
I wish I had a photo of you teaching us The Kiltmaker.
Hope to see you again!

[Barb T]

One of the kilts that I was working on during Kilt Kamp is in the Lamont Heather tartan, which many of you admired. I've finished the kilt and talked with the customer to ask him a little more about the tartan, and he sent me a picture of the area in Scotland that he thinks might have inspired the unusual colors in the tartan (pale moss green, heather purple, and dark brown). Below, you'll see the tartan plus the photo he sent me.





How amazing is that?

And I made a post in a different section of the forum on the interesting weaving surprise that I had when I laid out the kilt: http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/s...79#post1187179

And last, here's the kilt. It's pleated to the green block, and you can see in the second photo that the pleats will flash the white stripe when they open:

[Dani Mac]

Here are a few more photos.

Mary and Joanne consulting together.



Mary with her finished Pollock tartan kilt that she made for her father.


This is my finished kilt, Macpherson red muted. It is "pleated to the Ian," that is, to the stripe that Ian suggested. I get the double white stripe in the flash.