Ripping out pleats

[The Wizard of BC]

ya know, there is really nothing wrong with marking your pleats with chalk to give yourself a line to follow.

I do this over in the contemporary class all the time.


With your fabric laid flat measure out the width at the bottom of the Fell, and again at the level of the top strap.
With a fine or sharp chalk, mark a straight line between the two.

Mark on both side of the center line of your pleats.


If you look just to the right of my right thumb you can see my chalk line. Its right about where the pin is.



This is a hand stitched kilt for the Clansmen Pipe Band in Prince Charles Edward Stewart Tartan.

And being sewn left handed by the way.