Someone sent me an e-mail asking to share my idea/pattern for the pockets, so I am going to try my best to explain this and show a some with pictures along the way. A few things to keep in mind, the distance from my waist to my hips is 5", this is also where I gathered/darted the pleats together. I used a simple cotton muslin for pocket material. I cut 4 of them 7" wide x 15" long. Once I figured which pleats I was going to tuck them in and hide them I measured from the waist mark down 5" and then an other 5" for the pocket opening and did not sew my down that inside pleat.





These pictures are of the inside/wrong side of the kilt

I cut a slit in the kilt from the two marks along what would become the pleated edge. I placed one piece of the muslin on each side of the slit on the outside/right side of the kilt and sewed the pieces to the kilt along the slit on both edges.



I then turned the muslin pieces to the inside of the kilt and sewed the pieces along the slit on the outside/right side of the kilt across the bottom up the other side of the slit and across top to give the pocket a finished sewn look and to make it a little more sturdy.



I then sewed the inside pleat of the pleat that the pocket is attached to including the muslin.

Sorry no picture here.

On the inside of the kilt, I laid the two pieces together and sewed the edges together to form the pocket.





To close off the top of the pocket and to keep the pocket supported I sewed the top of it when I sewed the waist band around the entire kilt





I hope this clears things up. If not, I will try to clarify more.