looking for a kilt pattern

[flytyer]

Hi All,
I am looking for a kilt pattern that a Inexperienced sewer could do. I have looked at the other threads and found links to some but they will not open for me.

I would like to try my hand at the X Kilt, the photos of the work that others have done looks great, but I can not get the pattern to open.

Can someone help. If I can get one I will start working on it as a winter project and post photos.

Thanks
Scott

[cavscout]

As I recall, the X-kilt instructions are in a PDF. Do you have the free Adobe reader on your computer? There is also an X-kilt calculator in Microsoft Excel. I can convert the PDF to a few other formats that might work for you. PM me your email address with the format you would like it in and I'll send it to you.

[OC Richard]

I am looking for a kilt pattern

From The Art of Kiltmaking by Barbara Tewksbury and Elsie Stuehmeyer:

"As plans for this book began to take shape, several people asked how we would include the pattern for making a kilt. The remarkable thing about a kilt, though, is that it requires no pattern!"

Traditional kiltmakers never used patterns and patterns therefore did not exist. There's no such thing a pattern for a traditional kilt.

Each kilt is unique, the number and width of pleats and indeed all the proportions calculated for that kilt based on the measurements taken from the individual the kilt is made for.

[M. A. C. Newsome]

I was going to say the same thing as OC Richard. Kilts are not made from patterns. That's because a kilt is not made by sewing together multiple cut pieces of cloth, as would be a shirt, jacket, trousers, etc. (your typical clothing items). Rather a kilt is made from a single length of cloth that is pleated and sewn. So rather than following a pattern, you would follow instructions for how to pleat the kilt, accounting for the particular sett size of the tartan, size of the gentleman, etc.

By far the best and most comprehensive source out there (apart from having an actual experienced kilt maker teach you), is The Art of Kiltmaking, which can be purchased several places, including here.