Quote Originally Posted by Azevedo View Post
Thanks very much Pleater!!!

I followed your instructions... But it takes 1 and half hour for each pleat, so it will take some time before I post the final result...

I decided to pleat to the yellow stripe, as the red one would desapear in the tapering...

This picture i took yesterday:



You can see the pleat on the left is not very precise, as the horizontal lines do not match very well. I took more care in the others..

Today I made another pleat! Tomorow another one and I will join the two parts of the fabric on the saturday.

I will do the pleats near the apron last, so I will be able to correct some minor problems... I quite like the result so far. But the facings are a litle bit more wide than I expected... It should be 2" and after sewing is 2" 1/8. Like I will have 11 facings it can lead to more than 1" of my original plan. But, as I said, I can take this difference in the apron.

Another update after the weekend. I hope I can advance on the sewing...
I found that the best way is to measure from the apron to each pleat. Each pleat is then added up to the expected length. You can then adjust the pleat width as you sew each pleat. Don't try to adjust the length all at once, but one mm narrower on each pleat won't be noticed.