My newest project (for pay!)

I think I would h ave shown the nearest door. You aare a good person to put up with that kind of C..p Juno

OK....is that your company, or just a sample of what Highland Nationals garb is like?? Because I'm really trying to decide between the 2 family clans....Campbell and MacDonald....lovely combination, huh?? LOL To stay safe, I've always just chosen Black Watch......

Larisa

It may lead to additional jobs. I will instruct any future customers to get childcare for any child other than the one being sewn for. These were cute kids, but I was busy taking measurements on the oldest one, and Mom wasn't real good about keeping the other two in line.

I finished the blouse today, I'll make the dickie and sew in the vest hooks tomorrow (I was sure I had a bunch of silver hooks-and-eyes, but they aren't where they should have been). I hope to take a couple of pics when she picks it up next week.

No, not mine, I just linked to that site because it shows what the Nationals outfit looks like.

There are lots of Campbell( at least 31) and MacDonald (48) tartans including some "hunting" and "ancient":

Maybe you could choose a different one, although I really like Black Watch.

The nice things about Highland dancing is that the kids are not limited to a family/clan tartan. They can pick pretty much whatever they like. And for dance, they almost always choose "dress" tartans which contain more white and show better on stage. I made DGD's kilt with a MacKellar Royal Dress tartan woven in Scotland (this is just a link to the tartan)

You do know that you're havering between two sides of a bitter and ancient feud, don't you?

Would that be one that involved the MacGregors? Or was that a different feud?

Thank you, Beverly, for such an interesting trip. While enjoying my first cup of coffee, I went over to the Bent Needles website and toured. I had just no idea that such a world existed. Polly

Beverly wrote, in part >I'm adding full gathered white cotton sleeves to a RTW tank top for an 11-year-old to wear for Highland Dance "Nationals" competitions,

McDonald-Campbell, made infamous by the Glencoe Massacre. Campbell is still an unpopular surname in the Highlands.

Yes, Alan, I do. That's the Scottish side of the family....on the Irish side, we have both Catholics and Protestants....Nationalists and Unionists.....makes it a little easier to understand my crazy chaotic mind, doesn't it?? Also makes me wonder just how I got to be relates to both clans....must have been some serious familial defiance going on.

I jokingly said once that I should go to Ireland, stand with one foot on either side of the "dividing line" and tell them to deal with it as they were ALL Irish....yeah, figured I'd get shot from both sides for that one.

Eventually, I hope to make it to both Scotland and Ireland (and mentioned to Kate about stopping by for a visit and a shopping trip). Not sure when that's actually going to happen......

Went to your site. You obviously have a gift for this type of work. Do you like your Singer Quantum? I note one of your projects was of the Disney Character Tiggr. I have a shirt with that design on the breast. That's a part of the Disney Collection of Designs, isn't it? Somebody made a Disney edition of an embroidery machine, Brother maybe. DIL used to work at a Disney store and bought me a couple of things with Disney designs... TIggr and Mad Hatter. I loved her for it.

Alex

Practice, practice, practice... ;-)

Yes! My only regret is that I waited until I was 65 to invest in an embroidery machine and digitizing software. I have more fun with that set-up than almost anything else I have ever done.

That was a one-off gift for my son-in-law. Soon after buying the Quantum, I bought a Brothers Disney design disk, and only realized after I received it that I would have no way of transferring the designs to my Singer (the Brothers disk are proprietary, and I could not find any reader for them). I digitized that Tigger, stitched it out for DSIL, then destroyed the file.

Yes, see above. ;-}

Yes, as I understand it, Brothers has an exclusive deal with Disney. They make embroidery machines with built-in Disney characters, as well as additional disks with designs.

My son -in-law loves me, too. ;-D

I once had a denim shirt I bought at the local Disney store, It was embroidered all over with tiny Mickeys, Minnies, Plutos, and Goofys. It was one of my favorite shirts, I finally wore it out.