I know I could ask Barbara directly, but my question could be interesting for broader audience. While I was staring to bast the pleats down I noticed something. It's rather easy to keep right pleat width and neat look for the part of pleat which is visible, but the inner part is trying to "run away" somehow while stitching.

In the Kilt Bible, it's suggested that you start basting with first pleat. This is no problem when you're stitching hem line because you can hold down all pleats easily. For other positions this becomes tricky; you're influencing the position of the third pleat (or even more) when you are stitching through the first pleat.

So instead what was suggested in the book, I tried the other way; from last pleat toward the first one. It seems to have more control over pleat position this way.


What do you "masters" think on this? Will I bounce into some trouble?

Thanks for any comments!