First attempt for hockey kilt

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First thing I did was lay the yellow on top of the blue, below the fell line and pleat the kilt. It ended up being 18 pleats.



Once that was done I created a template for the detail and traced it onto the yellow that was already pleated.



After that was done I had to unpleat the whole kilt:



Then I had to repleat the yellow fabric so I could cut it out, this allows the fabric to be continuous and it will allow the yellow to flow into the undersides of the pleats:



This is what it looked like cut out, the blue chalk lines are the actual stripe I cut out extra to hem it:


Now came the part I was most afraid of heming the stripe, I have never been really good at hemming things and to be honest I am still not that good at it, but here is the pinned version.



I then pinned the strip onto the blue and repleated to see if this was going to work. It is not sewn down and the hemming still needs some work, but that isn't sewed either. I still have some work on this part but for the most part I am pleased that it is close to working:



You can see the first few pleats need some work to get it to line up better, and I will get there before I sew it. I wanted to get some pictures up tonight though, and since I am watching the Bills right now I didn't know if I would get back to it. I plan to hand sew the stripe on the blue, then go back over it on the maching, but I feel I have better control with hand sewing than with a machine. I will probably get it all lined up, and then hand sew the yellow on top of the pleats and then follow up with the inside of the pleats. My goal is to finish it before I go home for Christmas (December 23rd)