the old fell-in-stillwaters question

[Sherry]

On the Nightstalker I bought for my DS, there is no waistband per se. There is a narrow strip sewn around the top to finish the raw edge of the top. The pleats fall free from the top edge.

Sherry

[yoippari]

Well, the kilt is a little too big since I am boarderline between 36 and 38 so I ordered 38. The pleats never lined up. They are all about 1/8" to 1/4" from lining up. I am actually entertaining the idea of taking apart the waistband at some point and adding a taper. It fits well around the hips now but I get a lot of wandering pleats where my butt is trying to sperate them.

I am not actually sewing it. A woman in my public speaking class does ren faires and does quite a bit of sewing. I just need to know what all information she needs. She will be doing it over the christmas break which for us is about 4 weeks.