I was thinking.....

The reason one of my kilts ended up with 50 pleats was that the Reverse Kingussie has to have an even number of pleats, and the particular stripe I picked meant that there was 25 pleats worth of fabric available.

After a bit of shuffling I realised that there were two identical stripes within the sett. That meant I could make two pleats from each repeat, and not have to cut off any of the fabric. The pleats are different depths, but it works.

As the kilt under discussion will be pleated to the 'red flanked with blue' and there are two of them in each repeat - could you perhaps do something similar to my option, so as to reduce the amount of fabric in the kilt?

It would not reduce the amount of sewing, but taking out the full depth of one pleat in three or four could make a significant reduction in the weight of the kilt overall.

In a heavyweight fabric twelve plus yards of kilt width is going to be not far off six pounds (!! !!) - even before you add the internal strengthening, lining and buckles....

support mechanism....

wheels....

Anne the Pleater :ootd: