Pleating challenges #1: dealing with a too-wide central stripe

[Barb T]

Actually, this would be a nightmare to pleat to the stripe. You couldn't use the triple yellow, and the green-red-green is just under 5/8". On a typical kilt, you'd need a pleat that would be wide enough at the hips to include some of the black, but the black could vanish toward the waist if the pleats had any taper, juxtaposing green against green at the waist, and black against black at the hips.

It would only work if you were willing to have fairly wide pleats or if the pleats didn't have any taper.

Barb

[O'Neille]

Wow, I got a little vertigo just reading your description. In pleating terms it appears that three is not a magic number (especially a wide three). Very informative and enlightening. Thanks for sharing your solution.