Pleated Skirts 4 Ways! (Box, Knife, Inverted, Military Roll)

My pleat exploration continues, and this time, I'm actually gonna make a thing (or 4 things)!
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[@AleesaTana]

This is very helpful - when you have fabric with a straight line print, circle skirts can look weird, so this is a great way to get the swish without making the pattern go sideways somewhere

[@cenedra20]

I went through this pleats-learning phase like a year ago! Here are my notes: thick fabric needs less pleats, wider pleats, or none at all - bc they look bulky. Nice thin fabric can take a lot of pleats and smaller ones too. You can definitely pleat circle skirts!! and it's more flattering imo. Just triple the circumference... I mostly cut however much fabric I have, and decide on the pleats design when I get to that part in the sewing. I use Mariah Pattie's method of pinning the middle, quarters, eighths, etc. And then manipulate the remaining fabric for the pleats that I want.

[@cenedra20]

I loved your math and explanations! the deep knife waist looks awesome, the pockets turned out amazing, and the military roll skirt is my favorite 😍 your belt theory is very interesting, I need to try that sometime

[@haveaballcrafting8686]

You could have made the welt slit on the diagonal or even vertical to make it fit between the pleats neatly.

[@gettheetothestitchery]

Oh my goodness... literally never entered my mind to just make the slits vertical. Thank you!!

[@kathleensimpson2046]

Or she could have put them at the waist between the skirt and the waist band.

[@tibbynibby]

I think it gives it a very 50’s housewife feeling especially with the welt pockets.

[@nommh]

Have you considered sewing the best of both worlds but putting pleats ( instead of gathers) in a circle skirt? If you sew the pleats shut there is no bulk / bell shape near the waist, and the extra width makses them such a joy to twirl.

[@gettheetothestitchery]

Oo so actually the big ball gown I made earlier this year was a triple circle skirt with pleats and ermagerd it was incredible! I definitely want to try some pleated circle skirts for a more everyday look soon!

[@minerva_2473]

I can't even begin to tell you how absolutely overjoyed I am to have found your channel! I've been sewing my entire life and I love watching sewing content. Your channel brings me so much joy it's stupid. Your choice of patterns/projects, your explanations, and entire vibe are so wonderful. You're one of the most relatable and inspiring creators I've come across, so thank you for all your hard work. Know that it's made my summer turn from pretty bleak to a creative flurry ✨❤

[@gettheetothestitchery]

You're so kind, thank you for brightening my day!!

[@bunhelsingslegacy3549]

"Is it really a handmade garment if there isn't a spot of blood on it SOMEWHERE?" Oh boy do I feel that one hard. I sign all my work with DNA that way LOL, though usually it's felling seams so it's at least on the inside. What I like about pleating (especially something chonky) is if I do a kinda wide curved waistband, I can haz hips!

[@lydiac7543]

It looks like if you wore a fluffy petticoat under the lacy and military pleat skirts you'd get more of the silhouette that a circle skirt gives you. I'm not sure it would work with the other ones, but it might be worth a try.

[@gettheetothestitchery]

Definitely! It's on my to-do list to pull out my petticoat and try it with all my new skirts to see how the shape changes!

[@ellied1701]

I’ve loved twirly skirts ever since I was 19 (58 now) & saw my first Fred & Ginger movie. Thanks for the vid & inspiration! 😀

[@SLorraineE]

I've never heard of rolled or military pleats before, but that skirt turned out fantastically and now i want to make one myself!

[@megankuchta9145]

My favorite for box pleats is a giant double inverted box pleat at the center front. I make it as wide as where I would add side front seams. It adds a lot of volume, with a little effort, and it’s very flattering (when using a medium weight wool). You can do fork pleating to make knife pleats without measuring or pinning.

[@gettheetothestitchery]

Oo I'll have to give that a try!

[@juliecain6397]

Putting a strip of horsehair braid in the hem will give the hemline a lot of body. I suspect that is what you are looking for.

[@epowell4211]

Neat! The embroidered one is my absolute favorite - turned out so perfect and tailored looking. Maybe the length didn't bother me because I'm older, and wore skirts like that all the time in high school.

[@gravic48]

My favourite too and I also like the length.

[@jeannine1739]

I really like the embroidered one most. I think the length is very pretty. :)

[@debmarabito2486]

I love how you talk to us while sewing, and you come up with the best skirts. I love the embroidery material skirt is the best looking.

[@dawsie]

I like them but I loved skirt 2 & 3. Another method of pleating is Fork pleating yep you take a fork and use it to turn your pleat all along the top just using a fork. It’s a quick trick for pleats for those who just hate doing the math and marking the pleat size on the waist edge.🤗🤗

[@gettheetothestitchery]

Oo that's a trick I've been meaning to try!

[@Tiger89Lilly]

It's the only pleating I do because I hate maths

[@kristianbjrnjensen5388]

Now I believe , I will be dreaming of pleated clothes, when I sleep this time round.. I am glad you made the mathematics.

[@michellem.4358]

Love the v waist band on the stripes.

[@stephaniehight2771]

16:15 "Is it really a handsewn project if there isn't blood on it somewhere?" So true, so true!!!

[@leisongivangomo4478]

In order of preference: 3, 4 and 2 Zero vote for #1

[@midnightqueen3332]

I love pretty much all of them. The one with the lacey bottom is my #1 pick for fave. Most of the first in video were favorites, the white/damask style print was least favorite for me. I don't think it was a bad pick/style/combo, just not something that I would personally go for as far as style, just doesn't hit that "WOW" factor for me, that one was last for me of them.

[@BumblingBee-xm4dy]

I just want you to know, Im sitting in my chair sick as a dog from the common cold (high sensory sensitivity from autism, miserable as heck, and I’ve been binging your videos bc watching you gives me joy, thank you for being you

[@anitawarrell2650]

With your waistband less skirt if you fold 1/2-1” down and then pleat the edges are all out of the way/neat and tidy without having to fold the pleats in half. I did this for my wedding dress that was a a vintage 1865 dress large box pleats in the front, tiny vintage style pleats in the back.

[@laurenh7558]

Your videos are very inspiring because I swear the way you make things is so ADHD - allergic to patterns, just wings stuff, messes up but very open about it. It's inspiring to me because I love sewing but patterns are too fussy for my brain and I always end up discouraged before I even start because I can't figure out how to make something fit me. But skirts seems like a really great place to experiment with stuff. I really want to actually get into sewing clothing.

[@gettheetothestitchery]

I definitely recommend skirts! They are so few pieces, requiring so few specific measurements, and you can get super creative with them! Plus they tend to be fast projects, so more chance that you'll get to the end product and be encouraged and inspired to keep going with something new!

[@tammyhairston2119]

I really liked the white, printed one. I hope you do something with a honeycomb pattern soon. And pockets! Always pockets!!! 😊

[@Kera.S.]

Loved them all! I am definitely looking forward to the quadruple pleats! They looked so You! 💙👍

[@gettheetothestitchery]

Yay! Thank you!

[@AllTheHappySquirrels]

Gorgeous skirts! And puppy! Puppy: Am star of Youtubz

[@Ctrdtiff]

I absolutely love the purple one with the lace at the bottom or embodiery (new to this so I'm learning the terms we'll atleast trying 😂). Anyway.. great job on all of them.

[@lornapinnock8200]

I am in love with all the pleated skirts. I have an inverted pear shape, so it even me out.

[@kittybrowning]

Love the blue on how that turned out x

[@krisCrashTV]

The pleated waistband is so pretty! The rolled pleats just keep their form all the way down nicely somehow.

[@angiehomeschoolmom3269]

Even though you can't be bothered with skirt length, some of your readers might, so I'll share for their benefit. If your skirt/dress hemline falls at your skinniest point of your calf or thigh, that gives you the thinnest look to your legs. So that can either work in your favor or not depending on whether you have thick legs or skinny legs. Plan your hem length according to whether you want your legs to look thinner or thicker. :) If you care about that kind of thing that is. :)

[@w_nacht]

All of them look really good!!

[@WorldOfWonder66]

They turned out beautiful

[@BumblingBee-xm4dy]

0:27 omg i love the raised design on that blue fabric near the top of that stack!

[@sandradelvecchio6894]

Dumpy. Hmm. Here I am thinking I like the diamond one best and if the others were below the knee and cloister to ankle I’d really love them.

[@chrys.w.8022]

I think it would be a perfect skirt for the office.

[@kriskossack7231]

Love the knife one most. The twirl test is awesome 😀

[@ash-yj5nx]

Finally a vid with actual military roll pleats

[@davkmv]

I don't like to measure my pleats. I just pin the waistband to the skirt at the two ends and the center and then make my pleats fit. I am more concerned about making them symmetrical (left matching the right) than even across the top. This allows me to play with the size of the pleats and use whatever yardage I have. It also allows me to accommodate the side seams into the "pleat pattern" better. I love the pleated waistband on the last skirt. The lacy material was gorgeous.

[@MsHedgehog]

Really stinking cute skirts! I do not love the first one, because I am stuck on symetry, but the rest are absolutely lovely. 💖 Also; pleated circle skirts! Those are thing I think you migth like.

[@TeresaBearCFP]

Thanks for this video. Hope you are settling in your new house soon. I’m currently sewing a coral reef border print into a pleated split skirt to take on a Transpacific cruise I’m going on next year. I was going to make a full length gown with the fabric, but after watching your Grammy video, I decided to use your idea and make a skirt with several tops. This video was SO helpful with sewing math. My challenge with this project was that I wanted to make my pleat 4X my fabric. Ended up going with the military rolled pleat, but left 3/8” between the pleats. This gave me the 4X fabric and with the spacing, it made the pleat look a bit like a box pleat. I’ve got 1/2 the skirt pleated. it’s looking great! Hopefully will finish it in a couple of weeks. (I have to finish a petticoat that I’m making to go under it before I can be sure about the length.). One notion that is helping me with this project is a spool of water soluble thread. I’ve used it to baste the pleats down before finishing the waistband. It’s working great! Bought it on eBay for $4. (Shipped from China- so you don’t want to be in a hurry.)

[@amyspencer2565]

For pleating a wrap skirt, I believe that the under apron you don't pleat. Like in a man's kilt, only the back is pleated. The front is smooth overlapped aprons.

[@cinnamongirrl1705]

Your pup is adorable

[@BumblingBee-xm4dy]

21:52 thats cuz picking out seams are a bonafide pain in the hiney lol i do it a lot because most store bought clothes fit me well in some but very rarely all my measurements so i buy my clothes to fit the widest part then take in seams as needed

[@FerretKibble]

Love the purple skirt.

[@watson483]

The amount of times I’ve gone nah it probably doesn’t need interfacing in the waist band is too damn many times. I always regret it and now unless it is a fully elasticised waistband I will interface. My favourite waistbands on gathered skirts are the half elasticised ones as there’s less gathering and I don’t have to put in a zipper. I just hate doing zippers. I have so many vintage good zippers that I inherited from both my grandmothers but they are just sitting in a biscuit tin. I just do lapped zippers when I do have to use them

[@annettebroomhall8617]

Been binge watching so this is late. But, for future bleeding mishaps, a bit of spit is the best way of getting the blood out. Lick and suck. Sounds revolting but works better than anything else I have tried. And as a quilter, I have bled on my work heaps

[@bunhelsingslegacy3549]

For spots you missed, Body Shop's chamomile eye makup remover has gotten out (or at least greatly reduced) blood stains that have been through a wash.

[@BethAge95]

Lovely skirts and excellent spinning content :)

[@user-wl8rr7wb4y]

Note to self make a pleated skirt with generous welt pockets😊.

[@heiklei]

The pleated waist band 🔥

[@sherrydurham2220]

Very nice! I'm 61 years old now and tho I'm not gay I couldn't help missing my legs after seeing yours when you were twirling lol my body has betrayed me!

[@christinamoxon]

Love the pleats. But you're right, I prefer the bigger, swooshier skirts. Loved the video!

[@pursephonebell203]

I just want a pleated circle skirt 😩

[@gettheetothestitchery]

You and me both! (It's on my to-do list... )

[@LynnetteFishburn]

Do you know that your saliva can remove your own blood from fabric? Not someone else’s blood, just your own. You need to treat the spot before heat setting it by ironing or drying in a dryer.

[@BumblingBee-xm4dy]

15:51 and this is why i do most of my “pinning” with those quilter’s hem clips lol im always pricking myself with dressmaker’s pins lol

[@drasiella]

I love the millitary roll

[@gigglesmurf2004]

Singer used to make an attachment called a ruffler that does ruffles and pleats. It came with my great grandmother’s machine in 1948. Works with mine from my great aunt that’s from the 1970’s. Figuring out the math is harder but there’s no pinning.

[@Tyrysa]

Have you considered combining the two? IE pleated circle skirt. It would require starting with a HUGE circle, but it would be super swishy.

[@gettheetothestitchery]

Yep! My big ball gown was a triple circle skirt with pleats!

[@pnwforesthermit4506]

You should try a drop waist dress

[@kohakuaiko]

The "chima" of a Korean Hanbok is a pleated wrap skirt, but the overlap is in the back.

[@eileenfb1948]

❤❤❤

[@yazmar0712]

Also you can try a smaller waistband. About two (2) fingers wide. Just a thought

[@amyspencer2565]

Still good job.

[@sannabengtsson3044]

Flash drive for half a second hey Siri where

[@tleanvasner6866]

You can do a pleated circle skirt)

[@kerrough]

For the purple knife pleat skirt, you could have finished the top edge with bias tape instead of doing a waistband. Unless you were absolutely set on the waistband look, I suppose 🤔

[@susiecarson]

I think you are delightful. This video really helped me! Would it be possible to make a circle skirt but pleat it?

[@gettheetothestitchery]

It definitely would! My big Grammy's gown was actually a triple circle skirt with pleating, so that's why it had such incredibly massive swoosh!

[@JagnaJagoda]

Your puppy is soooooo bouncy jsjdibsvshjdxn I'm dying 😍🥺😭😍

[@andrearobinson9108]

What about the blouse material that they use to make fine pleated skirt.

[@yazmar0712]

I’m relearning with you. Have you thought on doing a circle skirts with pleats? I’m from PR & we’re required to use uniforms to school. My grandmother made us a circle skirts with pleats every year for school

[@gettheetothestitchery]

So I've done it once, with my giant ball gown triple circle skirt... so not a great every day outfit example. XD Definitely want to try it again on some more "normal" skirts soon!

[@BumblingBee-xm4dy]

21:14 amen, however, plaids seem to look better-put-together if you use a straight hem such as your pleated skirts….. and i really do love me some plaid [sigh]

[@conniegreen4337]

What's the difference between knife pleats & military rolled pleats?

[@PhurrPiece-pie-yv9mc]

It's only one curtain though 😂

[@marywest2896]

is your teapot in the background from England? If so, where did you get it? I just love all thing Royal Family....

[@gettheetothestitchery]

The blue and white one? It's actually a Cinderella themed teapot from Disney World!

[@vicki9298]

I absolutely ADORE the white embroidery skirt. It's looks so sexy. I'm J I want one

[@oakdream]

But what if...Pleated Circle Skirt?!

[@sublimnalphish7232]

Peroxide takes blood out of ..... Cloth and other stuff. It literally boils it out.

[@Gandellion]

Hear me out: pleated circle skirt.

[@yobespierre]

the one you think is a curtain is a shower curtain. i know because i have it. XD

[@FerretKibble]

...I've only seen plasticy feeling shower curtains

[@gettheetothestitchery]

Oh my goodness that makes so much sense!

[@wartgin]

​@@FerretKibbleThere's a school of decorating which believes you have the plastic liner to prevent splashing and an outer curtain facing the room which coordinates with decorating scheme, colors, accents, etc. Not one I generally subscribe to but you will find a lot at the Martha Stewart end of the homemaking scale.

[@crazyd0glady295]

Hear me out. Pleated circle skirt.

[@gettheetothestitchery]

Done it! It's awesome!

[@kiarakeeper2154]

Can you not pleat a circular skirt? I thought u could just pleat anything down to the right size.... like.. make your waist measurement 5 times it's actual size.. do your maths to cut the desired length and what nots... and pleat away. The reason the skirts you made are bell shapped is because of having less fabric at the hem. A pleated circle cut skirt would have the same hem to waist Difference.. just way more fabric used

[@gettheetothestitchery]

You totally can! The big ball gown I made was actually a triple circle skirt with pleats - so much swoosh!!

[@acebaker3623]

You talk about "math" and different styles of pleats as if the people watching your video either already know what you're talking about or don't want to know. I find this annoying. I wouldn't be watching if I already knew the answers. You're figuring it out and I was kind of hoping you would explain your process more.

[@lisahubbell9681]

Her previous video, showing different types of pleats, has the math: kzbin.info/www/bejne/e32nimaHe5p2jNU