Box Pleat

[way2fractious]

In fact this will be about 2.5 inches wide at the waist and 3.33 inches wide at the hip. It will have no overlap at all at the hip, and maximum overlap at the waist. The thing about box pleats is that you have to build in a LOTof taper into each pleat, since there aren't very many pleats. This is going to work out, but just *barely*!

You got it, Alan. See? Once you get the kiltmaking basics, extending that knowledge into the other pleating styles is a natural thing. Is this one to be handsewn?

w2f

[Alan H]

You got it, Alan. See? Once you get the kiltmaking basics, extending that knowledge into the other pleating styles is a natural thing. Is this one to be handsewn?

w2f

I'm debating on this. I have, for all practical purposes, a deadline on this one, so much of it will have to be machine-sewn. This weekend I marked and cut off the damaged selvedge and locked down the raw edge by triple-zig-zagging it. So it's already "contaminated" with machine-sewing. And of course I will machine-sew the inside of the waistband.

However, I blind-stitched the hem by hand (it's only 12 feet). Since there are only 6 pleats, hand-sewing the pleats would go fast. On the other hand, I've figured out a way to machine-sew box pleats from the inside (not top-stitching) so that no stitching shows at all, so what's the point of hand-sewing? So I dunno.