Quote Originally Posted by Erisianmonkey View Post
A pleating jig? A pleating jig?!! A PLEATING JIG!!! Wow! That's a real "why didn't I think of that?" moment.

By the gods, my next kilt will be a hell of a lot easier to pleat.
Yes. It's much easier. I'm sort of embarrassed that I didn't think of doing it before.

didn't get much done tonight. Cut out the piece for the left front and over apron, and sewed the pleats in. I'm doing four pleats, with the last one entirely under the apron, and I screwed up the order of sewing those two down. (sew the one hidden by the other one first. duh.) I discovered that picking out the stitches requires undoing nearly every single one, and as I can barely see them, it took 40 minutes to do 9 inches of stitching. Stupid high-quality thread. I did make the folding jig for the welt pockets.