Ummm, no, pleats on a trad kilt are stitched by hand from the outside with a very tiny edge stitch (like a blind stitch with a bit of a back stitch). The trick is to make the stripes match and to make invisible stitches.

You can make something that _looks_ like a kilt by kind of winging it, but, if you want something that will fit, hang, and last like a traditional kilt, then the details, the methods, and the interior construction are all important and not easy to imagine from looking at a kilt! If you want all the details, you can find them in The Art of Kiltmaking.

Barb