Quote Originally Posted by TheKiltedCoder View Post
Hi, All,

I'm in the process of sewing a knife-pleated kilt a la Barb's book. As I've gone through and done the math and marked things out, I've ended out with some oddish numbers for pleats that I thought I'd run past someone as a sanity check.

At this point, I'm looking at a total of 18" of pleats. ScotWeb gave me 8 metres of cloth, which, when you put everything together, gives a total of 33 pleats available.

Now, doing the math on this indicates that my pleat size at the waist will need to be 17/32", and 21/32" at the hips.

Do these sizes strike everyone as okay? I'm starting to think that I may want to knock out 4 or 5 pleats, to come up to something approaching 3/4" at the waist.

So, what does everyone else think? Is 17/32" too small a reveal for a knife pleat, or do I need to make things a bit bigger?

Thanks,

Brian
21/32" is 1/32" over 5/8th, which makes it just a bit (3/32") under 3/4". I would go with that. Don't worry about the width at the waist. It is at the hips that counts. When I make a pleated skirt for my wife, there is about 11"-12" difference between hips and waist. (As she says, she had an hour-glass figure, but the sand shifted!)