New here with some question.

[Barb T]

Cortez

Welcome to XMarks! Good for you to learn how to make your own kilt! This is a great place for asking questions, and you can always email me, too, if you have questions. But, in terms of fabric, I can only underscore what everyone else has said. Cotton is a very unforgiving fabric for making a kilt using the instructions in my book. For a beginner, heavy weight wool kilting tartan is actually the easiest to make a kilt from, and, if you work carefully, you'll have a nice kilt when you're done, instead of a "test project".

If you want to try your hand at something using less tartan (less cost!), make a 4-yard box pleated kilt. You'll need to buy the book, but you can download the box pleat instructions for free that Matt Newsome and I wrote. You can download the box pleat pdf either from my web pages (http://people.hamilton.edu/btewksbu/personal/kiltmaking) or from the Scottish Tartans Museum (http://giftshop.scottishtartans.org/books.html)