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 Pleat practice
Hello, dose anyone have any advice or tips and tricks for practising plates?
Thank you 
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 Originally Posted by Breagh
Hello, dose anyone have any advice or tips and tricks for practising plates?
Thank you
"Pleats" - folds?
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Pleats yeah - sorry my autocorrect haha
Yeah I'm just starting to practise them, any tips?
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Originally Posted by Breagh
Pleats yeah - sorry my autocorrect haha
Yeah I'm just starting to practise them, any tips?
Perhaps you're demonstrating one of the reasons the great kilt went extinct?
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Originally Posted by Breagh
Pleats yeah - sorry my autocorrect haha
Yeah I'm just starting to practise them, any tips?
Don't worry about it laddie, I need to correct my posts , most of the time! Its either my poor spelling and\or, my poor grammar, or that wretched autocorrect thing intervenes with my English words/English spelling and changes it to American and often to words that have no relevance to the meaning that I actually want to use! 
Check your posts, every time and more than once!
Last edited by Jock Scot; Today at 02:03 AM.
Reason: just checked my post......again!
" Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the adherence of idle minds and minor tyrants". Field Marshal Lord Slim.
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Oh - pleats - right.
work with fabric which is 'on the square' - I usually rip strong well made fabric or cut along a thread in the pattern - beware of printed patterns as they can be printed at an angle and cause problems - I had one kilt which looked very strange as the pattern was printed on way out of line.
If there are wrinkles iron the fabric gently to remove them, a light spray of warm water and drawing the fabric flat first can stop accidentally ironing in the fold, which can be a real pain and be visible years later.
I find that a light pressing to form the folds can help with some fabrics as can measuring both the top and bottom of the piece you are working with so you form what would be the part below the fell and might even decide to stitch along the lower edge of your practice fell so you can feel how the fabric might resist shaping.
I find that the pleats at the edge of the aprons flare out if they are made straight and true. I need to pull the inner fold higher than the straight line of the top of the apron and pleats and that draws the pleat into shape. I thought it was me being female at first - the child bearing hips, but I then noticed that some men have the same problem.
The lifting required is only a small amount, maybe only 1/8th of an inch but it alters how the pleat hangs and removes an obvious fault - it has been a useful ploy to use when correcting skirts cut on the bias. It can be corrected after sewing but it is better done sooner.
Anne the Pleater
I presume to dictate to no man what he shall eat or drink or wherewithal he shall be clothed."
-- The Hon. Stuart Ruaidri Erskine, The Kilt & How to Wear It, 1901.
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Moderator magic achieved, spelling corrected.
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I presume to dictate to no man what he shall eat or drink or wherewithal he shall be clothed."
-- The Hon. Stuart Ruaidri Erskine, The Kilt & How to Wear It, 1901.
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