Quote Originally Posted by Pleater View Post
So how would you even start ....? I mean - no no no!!!
First - have a little patience. If anything comes of discussions regarding Barb T publishing the step-by-step instructions for an MBP (to the stripe), that might make it a bit easier. If it requires writing and publishing those instructions separately, then so be it. After that, it's a simple mind shift in order to pleat an MBP to the sett.

The real secret to making any kilt - in any pleating style, knife, box, mil-box, Kinguisse, and any other - is to start at the bottom of the fell (the hip line) and mark out the reveals. That one thing alone - what to show - drives everything else in the pleats and other construction techniques.

After that critical step, all other steps for sewing the tapers to the waist, fashioning aprons, placing buttonholes, installing canvas, linings and hardware, etc. vary only slightly from style to style. Even the pleats from hip to hem are fashioned and held for pressing by one of very few basting techniques.

So, for the next few days/weeks/months just put your feet up and, with your favorite liquid refreshment at hand, watch the sun spin around the earth a few times.

... patience ...