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11th November 09, 01:36 PM
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First time pleating to the sett. (Maple leaf tartan)
I'm not sure whether to post this here or over in DIY but I thought I'd start it here.
I am making a Maple Leaf tartan PV tank and I decided to pleat it to the sett. (since there wasn't a nice thin stripe at the turn of the pattern.)
I already have one set of pleats done and am back to where I started. (in the pattern that is.)
I am sewing it by machine but basting each pleat in place before doing so. I have found that a very small zigzag is close to hand-stitching although not quite as invisible.
Each pleat is 1" at the hips and tapers to 3/4" at the waist.
Besides using a machine to stitch the pleats and not having an outside left apron buckle I am following the Art of Kiltmaking.
pics.
The apron edge and the first pleat basted and sewn.

Progress...

The fell at the waist. I have been using safety pins to mark the center of each pleat and making the chalk markings as I go along.

The fell at the hips. I decided on future kilts with traditional shaped aprons to hand stitch the apron as it is difficult in the extreme to match a curve with a straight-ish line while running the fabric through a machine.
Last edited by Hothir Ethelnor; 17th November 09 at 10:29 AM.
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11th November 09, 08:49 PM
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11th November 09, 08:54 PM
#3
Looking great so far and on a difficult tartan. Thank you for taking the time and to honour. It will be a beautiful kilt. Now if you on the NE side of the state you are more than welcome to show it off a a SOKS kilt night.
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11th November 09, 09:04 PM
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I'm on the NW side of the state...
What is SOKS kilt night?
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11th November 09, 09:19 PM
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Southern Ontario Kilt Society whereas the Maple Leaf tartan is the unoffcial Official tartan. We generally get together about an hour and a bit north the NY/Ontario border but have moved around from Toronto to Niagara. Kilts, beer and me trying to get kilt checked = good times.
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13th November 09, 09:25 AM
#6
See this thread under DIY for lots of discussion about pleating the Maple Leaf:
http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/p...493/index.html
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13th November 09, 10:40 AM
#7
Thanks, I looked at that right after ordering the tartan (I hadn't at that point known that it was asymmetrical...) I figured since I would be hemming it any way (PolyViscose without a selvage...) and the sett is small I wouldn't have problems, and it's turned out pretty good.
I'll post some more pics when the entire fell is sewn down.
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17th November 09, 10:31 AM
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And here are some more pictures.
I finished sewing the pleats and I am half done basting them I also hemmed the bottom of the kilt.

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17th November 09, 03:11 PM
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“We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.” -Paulo Coelho
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21st November 09, 09:29 AM
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 Originally Posted by Hothir Ethelnor
I am sewing it by machine but basting each pleat in place before doing so. I have found that a very small zigzag is close to hand-stitching although not quite as invisible.
Besides using a machine to stitch the pleats and not having an outside left apron buckle I am following the Art of Kiltmaking.
So, did you cut out the extra material, from the back of the pleats, before sewing the fell?
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