I'd say that the easiest way to get the fabric to make a kilt is to buy it as fabric - that way you are buying something you should be able to work with straight away rather than having to undo what has already been down to it - and if the cheap kilt I bought is anything to go buy, the quality of the fabric and workmanship would reduce a true craftsman almost to tears.

I have made myself quite a few kilts now - enough to have lost count, but as time has gone by I have upped the length of fabric, its weight and its quality - I have now graduated to 8 yards heavyweight real tartan all wool.

It is a bit like - no - it is a lot like an addiction, and the stuff used for cheap kilts is just not good enough.