Guys, I gotta tell ya. Hemming a kilt is just NOT that hard.

I mean, you take the kilt and put it on the ironing board. You fold up the amount you want to hem...oh about a foot of it and press it down with the iron. You work your way all 'round and iron it up. Then you sit down with a needle and thread and go 'round the kilt, catching just a few threads at each pass so a big hem-line doesn't show on the outside. Four-Five hours later, you're done.

You don't need a sewing machine. You need:

An Ironing board
an iron
distilled water
a sewing needle
a spool of thread that matches the predominant color of the tartan
4-5 hours of time.

.....and next to no talent. Stillwater kilts material is *easy* to sew in. It's loose acrylic, it takes NO effort.

If you don't WANT to do this, then that's fine. No problem if you don't WANT to do this. Hey maybe you don't have TIME to do this. OK, I'll buy that....

But to say that you CAN'T do this because you have no skill at it is just absurd. If you can use a hand saw to cut a moderately straight line in a piece of plywood, if you can slice up vegetables to make a salad, if you can draw a straight line in a drafting document....then you can hem a flippin' kilt.