I'd recommend that you get some material from Fraser & Kirkbright remnants You can't beat the price and it will give you something so you can go all the way thru the process of making a kilt. You don't learn everything on the first kilt. There will be things that if you make more kilts, you will look back and see the flaws in your first kilt... The more you make the better you get - simple! I took the approach; this is a piece of material that I want to learn everything once. Some of the things I did had other impacts and you would not learn that without going all the way thru it.