Quote Originally Posted by TheKiltedCoder View Post
I'm thinking quite seriously about trying that. In my case, there are two gotchas:

1. Since there is no taper from waist to butt, you'd have to do the calculations a la the XKilt instructions to ensure that you could still fit your butt into them once you were done, and

2. Remember me saying that the acrylic is very light. I'd be concerned about stitch visibility (although since I'd be stitching through at least 4 (if not 6) layers of cloth, that may not be as big a concern as I'm thinking it might).

I think that it would fit much more nicely (and would look nicer) if stitched from waist to fell. I wouldn't want to just tack at the fell line. I'd go whole hog.
See Some assembly allowed....SWK wherein Perldog007 and I experimented with the fell of our SWK economies.

I'd do a better job today, being armed with Elsie & Barb's book. Then, I simply pinned at the fell line, allowing for about a half-inch taper; and sewed up the edge of each pleat, trying to make the stitches small and inconspicuous. It worked out very well.

If I had it to do over, I'd remove the belt loops, hip buckle, and possibly the waist buckle. As it was, these created a few spots where pleats were fixed down; I just left those in their original position.