Now I will start on the right side of the kilt.

In sewing the pleats on the left side I began an inch or so from the centre back so that the other half of the kilt can be joined on with a flat seam.

The right and left pieces are overlapped and sewn along each side of the cream stripes, then the visible edge is turned under and sewn down to hide the fringe and locking thread of the selvedge.

That is stripe 1 - I can now work on the right side of the kilt just by counting the stripes.

On this kilt everything is working out well.

The apron has nine stripes, with cream at each end and the centre, which is good as the red is not so prominent. I am counting both the red and cream stripes on this project as they are both significant, on other kilts I would count only one colour of stripe. The apron is symetrical.

The last cream stripe is just far enough from the edge to work out. If it had not been right then I would have moved the apron one stripe inwards, so the edges and centre would have had a red stripe. All the pleats would then, probably, have moved one stripe - so they would start and finish cream, not red, and then I would probably have pinched a stripe from the right side for the inner centre back - that would be stripe 0 - as a Physicist I always remember the Laws of Thermodynamics. (There is a Zeroth law of Thermodynamics, one of those oups moments in science. We don't mention it - it could happen to anybody.)

Anne the Pleater :ootd: