I've been working hard all week on my first kilt - a dance kilt for my daughter.
No problems with the measuring, ripping. Even the sewing wasn't too bad if I do say so myself!
However, marking the pleats was one of the most intimidating sewing projects I've ever done! As you can see, I did not do a very good job!
pleats - first attempt 31-01-2014 9-22-02 AM.jpg
As I was going along, I knew it was not quite right, but I decided to just 'bash on'. Now I see that my white blocks are all messed up. I'm missing a 'solid white' pleat on right side of the white block. I also now realize that I should have centered that nice red/orange/black/orange/red stripe in a pleat instead of lining it up on one side.
This is only half of the pleats, so I'm going to go ahead and unpick them and re-do my pleat marking.
I think now that I have a better idea of how it all works I might do a better job.

If anyone has suggestions on how to pleat a "Scott" Tartan, or pictures of one pleated to the sett, I would love your input!

Thanks so much!
Dianna