Encouragement?

[Bamamedic]

So I've ordered AotK. I've downloaded the Box Pleat appendices. In 2002-2003 I machine stitched a number of kilts, including a box pleat with matching bias cut weskit and a reverse kingussie (because I misunderstood the description of a kingussie pleat I read). When I was a child I could quilt 16 stitches to the inch.

I have 2.2 yds of double width 12oz wool with a 5" sett from Gordon Kirkbright. I want to hand sew a box pleat kilt, pleated to sett using 1.5 setts per pleat.

I haven't hand sewed anything more than a button and the occasional piece of leather in 2 decades. I darn the occasional sock on an egg I made when I was 12.

And yet I am daunted at the task ahead. If anyone has positive waves to send my way as I hand stitch my first kilt, please send them. Is it going to look like garbage, or is it like a bicycle?