Calculation of pleats in Kilt

[cuddles]

Hi Everyone thanks for your feed back, I am pleating one kilt to the stripe, I have started my next kilt to the stipe and found that easy as counting the stripes that I can get into the material, as a rough guage. I have 31 pleats in that one. For the other kilt its for the sett, I studied the calculations again and have managed to do it, thanks for your help. Only thing I would say about the cm and metres issue that is I don't know why all is in cm, I can only think that one company I went to buy cloth from sells in metres and everything is in metric, some companies sell by the metre in Britain as all is metric so need to check before I order, I asked one company is it it metres or yards they sell it and they said metres. Hence I had to make sure I asked for the material in metres. 1 yard = 0.9144 metres. I already have the art of kiltmaking book and was only asking for some help I don't need to be shouted at in capital letters I would not think. And thanks for the tip on the ruler with both measurements might go get one of those.

[Dixiecat]

Hi Everyone thanks for your feed back, I am pleating one kilt to the stripe, I have started my next kilt to the stipe and found that easy as counting the stripes that I can get into the material, as a rough guage. I have 31 pleats in that one. For the other kilt its for the sett, I studied the calculations again and have managed to do it, thanks for your help. Only thing I would say about the cm and metres issue that is I don't know why all is in cm, I can only think that one company I went to buy cloth from sells in metres and everything is in metric, some companies sell by the metre in Britain as all is metric so need to check before I order, I asked one company is it it metres or yards they sell it and they said metres. Hence I had to make sure I asked for the material in metres. 1 yard = 0.9144 metres. I already have the art of kiltmaking book and was only asking for some help I don't need to be shouted at in capital letters I would not think. And thanks for the tip on the ruler with both measurements might go get one of those.

No worries. People who are still imperial don't understand how metric raised people have to worry about converting all the time. As a Canadian who converted to metric in the late 70's, I use both systems all the time, however, my 17yr old daughter is straight metric and I have to show her what inches and yards actually are when I refer to them. Sewing materials in Canada are sold in metric, but sewing patterns and sewing terms are still talked in imperial measurements.

As someone who has to convert sewing measurements into metric or vise versa, I feel your 'pain'. Making a chart of common measurements and their conversion is very handy to have next to your sewing area.

If you can't find a dual measure in Scotland, try mail ordering from Canada. We have plenty of dual tools.

[The Wizard of BC]

As someone raised with imperial but now living in a country using metric I feel your pain.

You can easily make a kilt using only metric. What measuring system you use does not really matter.
As long as you can understand the principals behind why you are doing something.

If you can visualize how to fold the fabric to achieve the pattern you need, you don't need to worry that 3/4 inch and 19.05 cm are the same thing.

[AJBryant]

What Steve said. It's all the same in the end.

[Carlo]

If you can visualize how to fold the fabric to achieve the pattern you need, you don't need to worry that 3/4 inch and 19.05 cm are the same thing.

And there we see the problems that come from conversions. 3/4 inch are 1.905 cm. The story of how a comma made an elefant out of a mouse

[Grizzled Ian]

Steve got the numbers exactly right, when you look at it another way. 3/4 inch does equal 19.05, but not centimetres. He meant to write MM, not CM, the poor tired munchkin. (You might also say he's 1100 out. Think about it, as Guru Bob used to say.)

[The Wizard of BC]

You buy them books and you buy them books, and all they do is chew on the covers.

Listen to what I mean, not to what I say.

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