I'm working on my new "Thompson gray" kilt and have a question for everyone. I worked the pleats out to either 24 or 24.5 inches in the hips so i went with 16mm pleat width and 39 pleats which would be 24.56" total. My newbie hand stitching was all over the place and I couldn't quite master the "catching the edge" bit so I resorted to top stitching with my machine (thus adding "semi" to traditional).

My question is, I came up just a little short after completing the 39 pleats so I added one more pleat to make 40. Now the distance between the right edge of the apron and the last pleat is exactly 24". The center pleat however is shifted over to the left by one half of a pleat. How much trouble is this going to cause me, assuming I still have enough fabric for the under apron?