First attempt...

[chasem]

unless it's extreme, the lumpinss shouldn't be a big deal, and will flatten out with the pressing.

as for the measurements, there shouldn't be much of a difference between the two (trad vs. calculator), as the trad means is essentially the calculator method, though a little less modern. Are you consistently coming up with a difference?

[Kilted Taper]

I have no idea what I've gotten myself into with this project....When's that Kilt Camp in Vancouver again???

I think it will be fine once I get that first pleat done, but getting that first one....I'm stressing out.

[Barb T]

Hi hi

The lumpiness will press out - that's the beauty of wool.

Why don't you give me the # of pleats that you have plus the measurement at hips and waist across the back of the kilt, and I'll calculate the pleat size for you? I'll also write down in the post how I did it.

The difference between 3/4" and 7/8" really does matter. Suppose that the pleats really need to be 7/8" at the waist, and you make them 3/4". That's 1/8" per pleat times, let's say, 25 pleats. Yikes - the kilt will by 1/8" x 25 or over 3" too small at the waist. Truly, even 1/32" matters.

So, when I'm doing pleats, I actually measure to 1/32" at both waist and hips. And you _definitely_ don't want the whole thing coming out too small.

B