Quote Originally Posted by Alan H View Post
Some guys gotta buy kilts. Some guys don't WANT to make a kilt. That's cool.

Some guys don't think they can make a kilt. Now, if you're missing a hand, or if you're blind, or if you're so ADD that you can't concentrate on anything for more than ninety seconds, then yeah, you probably can't make a kilt. Also, it must be said that making a full-on traditional kilt your first time out of the blocks is kind of a daunting proposition. I mean, it's at least 40-50 hours of work.

However, if you start with an X-Kilt, and then make another X-Kilt, and then make a machine-sewn box pleat kilt...

...and then buy Barbs book and read it, and then make a mostly hand-sewn kilt following the instructions on some inexpensive tartan off of ebay or from Fraser and Kirkbrights remnants...and THEN go buy the killer-diller 16 ounce dream tartan, the odds are pretty good that you'll turn an entirely acceptable product...AND you will have learned a lot AND you will truly appreciate why a professional-quality kilt costs as much as it does.

If that process, which will take about 2 - 4 months for a regular working stiff with a day job, is too much to contemplate, well then....


read the post about saving your pennies.
I appreciate the advice. Unfortunately I am the regular working stiff with a day job and a night job. Plus I have no sewing machine to work with. I have thought about sewing my own, but don't want to make a khaki colored kilt (just not my style). And if you read the post about saving your pennies, then you would realize I already have. No matter how much I save, I can not justify a 600 dollar item. Perhaps I will be able to sew one, when I don't have so much on my plate and I have a room to do it in.