Well, I thought I'd share my practice efforts leading up to Kilt Kamp. Having never sewn more than a button, I figured I should practice some of what I will have to be doing to assist in turning out a quality product.

Attached is a photo of my pleat-sewing practice. After getting some in-person tips from the Wizard of BC, I was able to better wrap my head around the task at hand. I used white thread for contrast, both to better see what I was doing, and as a challenge to make the contrasting thread disappear. By the end I was coming close! The stitching goes from the narrow red strip on the left to the white strip on he right. The newest pleat is bottom most on the photo.

I need to work a bit more on just barely catching the edge of the pleat, but also getting the stitch just a bit deeper under the edge. Those two things should sort me out.

Cheers, Flying Piper

Sorry, having difficulty attaching the photo from my phone. I've attached a link to it on Flickr instead.

https://flic.kr/p/DWjZ1M