Making my first kilt

[Barb T]

I think they may have been engineered to approx. align the sett at the bottom of the apron edge (but don't seem to have paid any attention to the centre pleat/centre stripe at the back).

Not having a centered back stripe would look really odd. By putting in a hidden pleat, you could engineer a centered front and back stripe and have the sett flow seamlessly from the apron to the pleats when you're pleating to the sett (but only at the very bottom of the apron, as you point out). But, frankly, I don't think it's worth it. Just let the apron edge fall where it does in the sett, and tell yourself not to agonize about it!!!

[TETrus]

I'm getting closer...the pleating is done...I'm just trying to finish the hidden pleat (putting me that much closer to the scary cutting part of this process).

I'm confused about p 125 of TaoK...

Heading - Finishing the edge of the hidden pleat

"Stitch the underapron edge that has the hidden pleat"

... isn't my hidden pleat in the lower left apron edge?

Do I need to hide a pleat in my underapron also?

Thanks!

[Barb T]

Well hey, lookit that.....you've discovered a typo that no one has caught in 15 years! Should be apron edge. All of the rest of it is right - I just bungled that sentence. Thanks for catching it!

[TETrus]

Thanks again for the quick reply...still not trusting myself through the process. I have 20 days to finish (alongside the busiest time of year at my full time job) - so I am trying to avoid any errors that will require re-doing sections. Probably everyone else was reading what they expected to see...which I might have done as well if it weren't for the combination of deadline and time constraints.