Quote Originally Posted by Barb T. View Post
If you otherwise follow the book instructions, you probably don't want to cut out the pleats if you're doing a 5 yard kilt. Matt might chime in on this one. You don't cut out the pleats on a 5-yard kilt, do you?
I generally don't, no. Though if I am using 6 yards of fabric I do.

Here is one of the 5 yarder's I made for Dave, in heavy weight weathered Lochaber tartan. This one had a pretty wide repeat, so the pleats are wider, though I don't think they look bad with the double stripe.


Here is another 5 yard kilt I made in medium weight Cian tartan. It had a smaller sett repeat, so you can see the pleats are much more narrow here.


Just for the sake of comparing, here's a 6 yard kilt I made for myself.