Disappearing A-line

[Barb T]

My advice would be to just re-press it where it "wants" to fold. My experience is that the taper on the underapron edge needs to be smaller by half and inch or more than the tape that you need on the apron edge. If you make the taper too wide on the underapron edge, it just wants to fold at a smaller taper.

And, actually, if I'm making a kilt for someone I can actually fit a kilt to, I don't press either the apron edge or the underapron edge until I've tried the kilt on to see where it "wants" to fold. That way, I get it right, and I can take the basting out and re-do it if it's not folding in the right place. If I'm making a kilt for someone else, that isn't typically possible, but every body shape is different, and it's hard to predict what will exactly be right.