Hello and a warm Celtic from Boston, Massachusetts.
Also check out the D.I.Y. Forum on this board. There is a sticky for the X-Kilt, with directions put together by a member of this forum, Alan H. This is a nice machine sewable kilt. Barb T's book is the bible of kiltmaking and reviewing. You should be able to put together a kilt rather easily with sail making skills on a sewing machine. It is a lot less material than putting together a mainsail for a reproduction schooner. Having grown up in rural New England, I am quite familiar with the farm equipment part as well.
Slainte