Hi Barb, and the left-handed tenth of the population,

It seems to me that, if you can clamp your kilt to something solid while you sew pleats into it, you can just as easily clamp any other material, including, say, the cut-off leg of an old pair of jeans, to which you can then pin the top of the new kilt. This would reduce the risk of pinning the kilt to yourself as well as to your trousers.

It also strikes me as an opportunity for right- and left-handed kiltmakers to team up when the kilt-wearing world "discovers" Kingussie pleating and floods us with orders.