Basting pleats for pressing

**Abax** · 29th February 08, 09:13 PM

This would be a good one for the Tutorials forum.

Abax

**ChattanCat** · 25th February 08, 04:29 PM

Rex,
I will try to answer the first part of your question.
When you are basting the pleats, you start at the apron and grab the first pleat. Baste thru all four layers.
Then grab second pleat and baste the first pleat to the second. This way the basting only goes thru two pleats at a time, or four thicknesses of material.

The only place where you will have less is when you get to the inverted pleat, then you will be basting thru the last pleat and one thickness of the inverted pleat.

Hope this helps,
Wally

**Hendry** · 25th February 08, 05:05 PM

Thanks Barb, I could have used that last week, thankfully made it through unscathed

**turpin** · 25th February 08, 09:34 PM

I bookmarked this one before it finished loading, even though I do have "The Book".

The nice thing is it's easy to baste a straight line by following the tartan (states Turpin, Master of the Obvious).

**andyfg** · 26th February 08, 06:09 AM

Thanks Barb. Always helpful.

**Splash_4** · 10th July 08, 10:01 AM

Sorry to dredge up an old thread, but I was just getting ready to post a question on how to baste a kilt so that it can be repressed. Most of my kilts are getting to the stage that the knife edges are getting soft. As I want to clean the kilts and then repress the pleats I needed to learn how to baste them

Thanks again for a great tutorial Barb!

(p.s. The search function is your friend!)