I told you I would finish all this talking about pleats but there’s one more way to make them…maybe the simplest of all.
I was working in my sewing room when all of a sudden I heard something coming from the fabric shelf. It sounded quite excited-like. As I got closer, I could see one of my red plaid fabrics waving her selvages frantically!! “WHAT ABOUT ME? WHAT ABOUT ME?” As soon as I saw her, I realized there WAS one more way of making pleats…but ONLY with plaid fabrics…and it had to be EVEN plaids, not UNEVEN plaids.
There are a zillion blog posts out there if you google “even vs uneven” plaids. I picked “one” of them if you wanted to read more about it. It might be overkill, trying to make my point, but it’s very good at explaining the difference.
Let me show you this simple way…Oh, but first, here is that red plaid that was talking to me…
Here is a closeup shot so you can see it a little better…it’s a homespun fabric and very easy to work with…
Now, what do I mean by EVEN plaids? If you take a corner of the fabric and pull it up and lay it up at an angle, like this… you can easily match up the design in the plaid…
Usually the best way for me to tell an even and uneven plaid is to squint my eyes after folding the corner up… if it looks all square and nothing seems off, it’s most likely an even plaid…
I looked for something that was definitely an uneven plaid in my stash and didn’t find one… (I’m pretty much a symmetrical girl!)
Anyway, so I wanted to show you another way to pleat a skirt and this way can only work with plaids…although you could do it with some geometrical and square patterns too…but today it’s all about this red plaid…and box pleats!
I decided I wanted to take the two black lines in this plaid (with the yellow pins in them) and fold them over to the red line (with the green pin) in the middle of the dark section of the plaid…
Here they are folded to the middle red line and pinned in place…
Then I moved on the next set of black lines and folded them over to the red line in the middle…
…and on to the next…
…until I had gone the width of the fabric…
I pressed the piece at the very top section with my iron over the pointed ends of my pins but not the yellow pin heads… (they can melt)
Then I took the piece to the sewing machine and stitched along the top edge…making sure to use a seam ripper to hold my pleats together where they meet in the middle.
After the top was stitched, I took it back to my ironing board and pressed the pleats all the way down, carefully removing the pins as I eased my iron down each pleat…
Now normally I would suggest you hem your skirt at the bottom edge approximately the length you want it. I didn’t realize I was going to turn this into something… just thought I’d show you how to make pleats this way, but since I was already this far along… I decided to go ahead and make it into a skirt…
I serged the bottom edge of my skirt and turned up the bottom edge on one of the plaid lines… and carefully pressed ONLY the bottom edge of it. I can easily get my pleats to go back together, but there’s no need to go up any higher than is necessary…
I went back to my sewing machine and stitched the hem on the red line as I was using red thread in my machine.
…and there you have it… my beautiful pleats, made by just following the lines in the plaid fabric…
I’ll have to show you what I turn it into! Stay tuned!
See you tomorrow,
Blessings, Jeanne
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Fecha: September 14, 2020 at 02:00AM
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