I’m hard at work on the green kirtle, amongst other things, but I don’t have much to show for it yet.  Here’s a couple of teasers:

This is not how the pleats work.
What didn’t work was a pleat grid of 1/2".  I rethought, and divided each half into four giant pleats, which will then be stitched under the bosom – since that wouldn’t change beyond the capabilities of the laced front closure to handle – and I’ve come up with a belt-loop-like device to make the bottom end of the pleats adjustable by the day, with no sewing.


That yellow strip is on the inside waist, as a reinforcement.  The loops are made with half-hitches.  The black thread is showing where the tops of the pleats will be sewn first to each other (which I’ve already done), and then tacked down on the right side of fabric, after I cut the V-neck.

Which will happen tonight, I hope.  Fittings are getting ridiculous with the flappy extra bit in the way.