Pleating options and double-checking calculations for kilt-like kilted skirt

[hmonroe]

Thank you for your advice!I hadn't even thought of the stripes disappearing...

Since I need to lose 1/3 of the width of the pleats from hip to waist, I think that really limits my options. The only part of this tartan with enough continuous stuff around a stripe is the triple green stripe surrounded by red. I don't even think I could reasonably pleat to the sett?

By counting out pixels, it seems like I could do a reverse kingussie where the narrowest part of the waist would look like this:

WaistofPleatedTriple.png

and the lower part would look like this:

ReverseKingussie.png

This arrangement would have 18 pleats at 1 1/3" wide each at the hip to give the 24" of hip pleating and ~0.9" each at the waist to give the 16" of waist pleating. There would then be one pleat per sett, or 18*8.25" for pleats + 2*16" for apron = 4.7 yards of fabric for the pleating and apron and thus I would purchase ~5.25 meters to give me 28" for the apron pleats and fringe + a tiny bit extra. Does that seem right? Would that pleat width look reasonable for kingussie or reverse kingussie?