Alright, help a brother out..

I'm sitting here working through my first kilt. I picked up a copy of Barb and Elsie's book (fantastic work!). However, I'm having trouble on the figuring how much tartan part. I've got plenty of tartan material, but I don't want to waste much. (BTW, it's a wool lightweight in 11oz, knife pleated to stripe.)

I'm sure it's plain as day in the book but it's not getting through my thick skull...

Ok, so, I've got the measurements written down and figured. However, where I run into problems is figuring how many pleats to, well, pleat. Since it's to stripe, do I only need to pleat the number needed in the width to make a sett still? If that even makes sense...

Help!


T.