OK gents, here are the questions.

Where did you learn to sew?

Did you know how to sew before starting on your kiltmaking experiment?

I have a copy of Barb T's The Art of Kiltmaking, but it is written in a foreign language. I don't speak seamstress. Any suggestions, other than pestering the daylights out of Barb, on how to understand the directions? I can do leatherwork, make a mean haggis, bake biscuits to make you hurt yourself, and can carry on a conversation in passable ballistic, but this sewing talk is making me feel like an idiot.