I'm practicing my stitching and trying out different stitches on scrap fabric and am a bit stumped on the stitching to attach the stabilizer as shown in TAoK (2nd printing, 2007; pages 93-94).

Part of the instructions include the warning to check often for dimples or visible pleats. I'm not sure how you don't end up with visible stitching on the right side of the kilt based on the stitching pattern.

Although, I strongly suspect that the issue is that I'm working with scrap fabric and not an actual kilt under construction (KUC?). I think that the answer to my question is that when actually working on a kilt that the stitching does not go all the way through to the outer layer of the outer pleat but rather, you only work through the stabilizer material and the innermost layer of kilt. Am I on the right track with this?

I found lots of great information on this thread from several years ago:
http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...-period-70205/

Here are some photos from that thread with the top two being, I believe, the same kilt from the back and from the front (no visible stitching). The other photos I included because I think they're very nice and show multiple ways of approaching same job.

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