Quote Originally Posted by Nathan View Post
If you don’t want to wait a month or pay someone, have a look at this tutorial. The thing about basting stitches is that they are temporary so they don’t have to be super neat. You’ll be pulling them out anyway. They just hold everything together for pressing.

https://youtu.be/NKkZO1iDcr4?si=tUJ9HZmIABGOMhOv
Thanks for that. I've watched a number of Robert Maconald's videos. In this one he makes it clear that basting the pleats on a kilt pleated to the sett is a fairly simple but laborious process, but ENDS the tutorial by saying the kilt needs HORIZONTAL basting stitches as well before going off to the dry cleaners. I'm not sure why that would be. Also, I have NO idea what a kilt placed into a bathtub or a big basin where it can lie flat, with Woolite added, would look like when it comes out. Would the pleats have disappeared below the fell?

Also, I'm not sure that the basting landmarks would be so obvious for a kilt pleated to the stripe. My new Lunar Tartan kilt is the first I've owned constructed that way (on Barb's recommendation, and I'm delighted with the way it looks). Fortunately, it IS brand new, so hopefully won't require such attention for a good long time.