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I hate sewing personally and it was never any fun for me in college, but it was part of the curriculum I remember a few pieces we did including shirts, skirts, and pants. While constructing skirts and having to incorporate pleats in the process to manipulate it into a narrower skirt.

Pleats are sometimes placed at the bottom of skirts and is a folded/tucked back piece of fabric that is either stitched or held/pressed in place to bring out fullness. There are different methods for creating pleats, but the simplest for me was pinning, ironing, and stitching the pleats in place and tucking/turning in the edges.

There are many types of Pleats, but we will briefly discuss the more common types:

• Box- edges face in the opposite direction

• Knife- Heat Pressed edges and they face in the same direction

• Accordion or Sunburst- They have a wider bottom that goes up into a narrow top

• Kick- A single pleat

• Inverted- Edges meet at a center line facing each other

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