Quote Originally Posted by nab2488 View Post
^ Yeah I am planning on a solid color. I am planning on buying the cheapest cotton I can find for my first one. Then if I royally fubar it won't be a big deal. Sorry for being such a newbie but I am having a hard time finding the Xkilt pattern with knife pleats or revK pleats? Would I just take the instructions you just gave me and do that instead of the box pleat instructions on the xkilt instructions?

Yes- cheap is okay but spend your time and money for quality! If you were successful in making a kilt (and that's truly possible if you're motivated) then you'll want to wear it. Will you wear it if was the cheapest fabric that you wish you hadn't gotten?


Bottomline is : get the fabric that you'll enjoy wearing and/or showing off, within a reasonable price of course. If you get double-width, you'll only need about 2.5 yards or so. If it's say, $10/yd, that's not going to break your bank at $25. But you can definitely get less expensive fabrics at under $10/yd. Go to Jo-Anns or Hancock Fabrics and look around, sign up so you can get their discount coupons. (JoAnns has one right now...). Hancock's has a table of cotton twill/cotton poly at good weight at 3-ish/yard. At that price you can get 5 yards of double-width and you can have two kilts.

While the revK addendum is still being processed, I can certainly help you with instructions and I'd be happy to help you construct a rev-K kilt. I would recommend, downloading and reading Alan H's Xkilt manual which will give you instructions on how to construct a box-pleat. The rev-K is just a different pleating but most of the other details are going to be the same/similar. It will be of significant help.

Let's talk some more.