How to Repair Undone Permanent Pleats in a Pleated Skirt

ID: 170824

Description: The following guide demonstrates how to repair...

Steps:

1. Lay the skirt on a flat surface and fold the undone pleat into place.
2. Pin the pleat into place with a sewing pin or pins, pinning near the top of the pleat at the waistline of the skirt.
3. Caution: This guide uses sewing pins and sewing needles. Please remember to be careful when using these tools as they are sharp and can cause minor cuts.

4. Select thread of a color that matches the color of the skirt.
5. Put the thread through the eye (hole) of the needle.
6. Knot the thread at the eye (hole) of the needle.

7. Begin sewing by pushing the needle through the skirt, starting with the needle on the inside of the skirt.
8. Starting on the inside of the skirt ensures no extra thread is exposed on the exterior of the skirt once the repair is complete.
9. Leave approximately 10 cm to 15 cm of thread on the inside of the skirt.
10. You do not want to pull the thread completely through the hole as this would not allow you to form any stitches while sewing.

11. Complete the first stich along the top of the pleat, making the stitch approximately 0.25 cm.
12. Continue stitching in and out of the skirt until the end of the undone pleat is reached.

13. Stitch in the opposite direction until the needle is back where it started.
14. By stitching in the opposite direction the repair will be strengthened.

15. Complete one final stitch so that the needle is on the inside of the skirt.
16. Cut the thread with scissors leaving about 10 cm to 15 cm of thread.

17. Knot the two loose pieces of thread on the inside of the skirt.
18. One piece of thread comes from Step 3 and the other from Step 6.
19. Cut any excess threads with scissors.

20. Remove the sewing pin or pins.