Thanks Barb - hope Band Practice was good...

I'm going to stick with the green stripe as center - and yes 5"1/4's TINY but its what I've got so I'm kinda stuck with it....

Following the book I've marked the apron, left a 9" gap fromn the bottom of the left hand side of the front apron and there are 17 repeats of the sett before the end of the length.

Having done some math based on a minimum pleat size at the waist of 5/8's I have 29 pleats. This seems to make me 2x sett repeats longer than expected - ie I was expecting to have 14 repeats between the apron and the centre back stripe.

So - should I make less pleats on the left length of fabric? I think that would mean my centre stripe is out of place.

So should I move my centre stripe 2 repeats toward the front apron, re-mark those marked pleats between and make the two lengths join where they need and I'll just have more fabric left over after I've marked the underapron...

It was suggested on another post to leave 2 sett repeats for the joining of the two lenghts...?

If I have to lose a foot then I have to...

Here's what I've got so far...