This will probably arrive without formating, so bear with me. Something seems to be a bit awry.Could you get away with simply repressing the apron into the shape it wants to be, taking advantage of the flare in the pleats - or am I not visualising the problem correctly.I put in under apron pleats in my kilts and if I do not sew them out of line at the waist band they roll outwards. I have to lift the inner fold so there is a long thin triangle of double fabric, shortening the inner fold and pulling the pleats into line. Perhaps some similar tactic could cause a reshaping - dropping the inner fold would push fabric out Anne the Pleater :ootd: