Marking pleats to the Sett...

[Gilvray]

I'm just thinking through my pleats and marking up - and wanted to grab some quick advice.

My sett is 5 1/4".

I plucked a pleat size of 5/8" (I seem to feel I have to pick something between 5/8">1" and 1" is too big on a small sett? A sort of feeling that the tiny bit extra in pleat depth will look better?) Maybe utter rubbish?

I'm going to make the pleat split at the waist 17 1/2"

So I will have 29 pleats?

(5 1/4" goes into 17 1/2" 3.3x. At 5/8" a pleat there are 9 repeats in the sett, so 9x3 (27pl) + .3 (3pl) =30... minus 1 because the centre pleat is in both lengths of fabric)



Does this add up?

Also - to get the 9 repeats into the sett I've tried to keep the thick dark blue lines in the start - however my front apron will use the central green bar as the main stripe - so would it be a mistake to leave the pleat marks where they are - should I move it one way or other to get the green bar central to my pleat?

Lastly - there are 20x repeats of the Sett before the front apron on the length of fabric - bearing in mind the underlain deep pleat, there would be 17 pleats in this length, will that be ok to join to the other length and then add the other 12 to the other length - I dont think so because then my center back strip will be 4/5 pleats to the left of center... oh I'm getting confused again... its what you get for trying to do this after a day at work and putting the children to bed.
Thanks everyone!