Quote Originally Posted by D.A. Guertin View Post
Sydnie,

Yardage isn't really too much of an issue since I'm so scrawny, but also because I picked up another 3.5 yards of it. ;-) It's the tapering in at the hips that really has me noodling over how to do it, though. Sounds like it would be easier to hit a few buffets and put on 10 pounds than try to get the taper to work!
LOL but that doesn't work either. . . you are tapering in the rear, to adjust for the difference between "rumpus" and small of your back dimensions. All that a buffet-belly does is make it more difficult for the apron to hang nicely. FYI those are commonly called "bay windows" or "corporations" around XMTS.

Tapering isn't that difficult. Your 1/4 in. guesstimate is very do-able. But I would pin the pleats up to a different pattern, just to test, and try to get away from any stripes being right along the edge of the fold. As I said before, those stripes disappear as you work in the taper, and it doesn't look as good as it could.