(gratuitous pleat shot)
The gauze is so delicate you can't easily fix mistakes. Making this slow going work. Especially the cool completely part.
The pleats are for the hem frills on this gown. They are clearly pleats, but weirdly fluffy. At intervals.
I was hoping (yes, the 4-letter word, hope) that the single row would bunch up enough, but it doesn't fluff up enough. The wavy bits below are screw ups, my pleater board learning curve. Toward the right you can see what it looks like once I perfected cooling and such.
What does give me regular fluffy pleated intervals is pleating the pleats. Yes, that's taking a 1 inch pleat at one inch intervals on already pleated fabric. Knife pleats, as box pleats get wonky on the side that is folded against the pleat. Even the messy bit comes out fine.
And yes, I re-ruffled the puff ruffle on the second shot. First time I've used a gathering foot. Might up the stitch length again though. The puff ruffles are pretty dense too.
I know pleats were pleated on things like the underside of skirts to curve along the hem, but I can't find any evidence that pleats were pleated to give additional body like I'm doing.
Has anyone seen pleats pleated like this for hem finish on an extant garment? I've searched my unusual stuff and came up dry. Most I've found use simple knife pleats, but the effect isn't similar to this fashion plate.
Has anyone seen pleats pleated like this for hem finish on an extant garment? I've searched my unusual stuff and came up dry. Most I've found use simple knife pleats, but the effect isn't similar to this fashion plate.
But damn if it isn't lush. And a better match to the fashion plate.
It'll take 2x the amount of finished pleats to pleat the pleats. The original pleats were 4x. So 8 inches of fabric turns into 1 inch of finished pleating. All told, that's 40 yards of silk gauze around the hem. :O It means I'll go from 2/3rds the way done to 1/3 the way done. Each batch of fresh pleats off the board will cover 4 inches of hem,
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