Advice on Repairing Pleats and Thread Question

[Naught]

Working in the opposite direction, if I take the thread inside the pleat, I can take a bigger stitch and catch the layer underneath.


Then when I come through the top, I can get the stitches closer together.


I did this very quickly, and will be removing it, as this same pleat is coming undone at the top as well, but now I don’t see the stitches. I’m just not sure doing it this way is secure enough, though it seems better to catch both bottom layers than just the top, or to take longer stitches. Would love some input. (Some of the kilts were machine sewn through the entire kilt, so I’m laughing at myself for stressing over it to this degree. But these kilts deserve better.)