First DIY kilt underway

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Don't know if I could stitch pleats without being able to stretch the fabric vertically at least a bit. But I am admittedly a rank amateur rookie.

There must be some reason Elsie's been doing it that way for 50 years.

FYI, your clamp method is fully Barb T. approved. Here's a rig put together by our own Cayusedriver at Kilt Kamp 2008: