Just a couple of "kiltmaker thoughts". If you are considering pleating to the stripe, and you have a particular stripe in mind, make sure that it is the right width for pleating to the stripe. Your design 1 will pleat well to the white stripe, but probably not to the purple stripe, because the green looks like it will be too narrow to make up the whole rest of the pleat (i.e., part of the pleat will have to extend into the adjacent light color at the hips and will likely be lost as the pleat tapers toward the top of the kilt). See this thread for an illustration of the potential problem:

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/p...454/index.html

You might also run into a similar problem if you wanted to pleat the second design to the greenish yellow stripe.

As you're designing, figure that pleats will be 3/4-7/8" across at the hips and, depending upon your waist/hip differential, may taper significantly toward the top of the kilt. To get a rough idea, divide your waist size in half, and divide that by 27 (a typical # of pleats in a kilt).