-I would definitely not try to split that tiny little white stripe - it will be almost impossible to make it look good.
-I also wouldn't hold the white stripe up the edge of a pleat - the white line is a pivot, and I think it looks odd when the pleats on each side of a pivot are not mirror images of one another.
-Another thing you should try is pinning up the pleat at the actual size and taper. The black stripe is dark, as is the adjacent green, and it might actually not be all that obvious if you lose the stripe in the taper.
-Paul Henry's solution is a good one, and you could choose to make the pleat with the white stripe either wider or narrower than the others. Try a test pinning first to see how you like it, though.
Maybe just not use all of the fabric if I need the pleats to be wider? I still haven't cut this fabric yet so I'm not sure how many pleats there will be. I suppose all of this is premature. Trying to solve a problem that hasn't presented itself yet.
No reason to use all the fabric if it will look better pleated in a way that uses less of it. I've made several kilts where it just looks better to use less fabric.
In fact, I just finished a beautiful Hunting Robertson kilt pleated to the red stripe and had a chunk left over. If I'd used all the tartan, the pleats wouldn't have looked balanced because the red stripes would have been too close together at the waist.
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