very narrow color blocks

[Barb T]

Ah, right! I'd forgotten about the little blue stripes, and I didn't notice them in the pic you posted. Sorry about that!

Did you try pinning up pleating to the blue block? I think it would be worth a try just to pin 5 or 6 pleats. Any tartan pleated to a solid color block will have a horizontal, but it isn't necessarily objectionable (i.e., doesn't always give the cringeworthy lawnchair...). Here's one example of a tartan that looks fine, no lawn chair, even though it has a very strong horizontal:


Do you want to pin up your tartan and take a quick pic and post it?

Gaaah! Sorry for the duplicate uploads of the same pic earlier. Our internet is glacially slow here, and nothing happened for FOREVER, so I tried uploading again. It was obviously busy in the background for the hour it took to get uploads in......