When I started this obsession, I had a short list of kilts that I wanted. A nice MacNaughton was on that short list, so was Holyrood and prominent on the list was a kilt in the Gray Stewart tartan.

Me being excrutiatingly budget-minded, I couldn't make myself pay for full-price Gray Stewart. I waited for over a year to find some on discount, but it never came up. Then, while looking over kilt skirts for the Luminous Joan, I found a Gray Stewart skirt. I PM'd the seller on Ebay and asked her if she had two....No, she didn't.

Darn.

So I kind of gave up on it. Nine months later I got a message from her saying that she had two Gray Stewart kilt skirts in the exact same tartan, did I want them? YES!!!! Upshot was, for 7+ yards of 10 ounce 100% wool, I paid $35 plus shipping from Eastern Canada.

Mind you, about a month after this happened I came across 4 yards of Gray Stewart on sale from an Ebay seller, but what are ya gonna do, you know?

I've had to take the skirts completely apart to get to the cloth, but that's OK. While they were the same material, they were turned up and hemmed in different places, so today I ripped out the blind stitching on one of them, ironed the hem area flat, and re-turned it up so that the two pieces match. I'm about 1/3 of the way along, blind-stitching the hem again. One that's done I will cut off the fringed edge of one skirt, triple zig-zag the raw edge and join the two pieces. And then....

...my Gray Stewart Kilt, in the wings for almost 4 years, goes under construction.