Hi, it depens on what you want to make. Do you want to hand-sew a traditional kilt? I'm doing that right now, you can see my thread on it. I'm 50 hours into it and probably got another 15-20 to go. IF you want to do that, then get Barb's book

On the other hand, I banged together a reasonably acceptable canvas kilt in 19 hours of grubbing around on the floor with the Singer. If you google "make a kilt" you will come across 3-4 web sites that give you the basic idea. If you follow those instructions you'll have an acceptable kilt for knocking around town in and lounging around the house. You probably won't wear it to the Opera, you know? But maybe that's OK...