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hello and welcome to Russian Saram
blogtv and collegially in this video
tutorial I'm going to be demonstrating
how to form nicely so what are nice
pleats knife pleats are created by
folding fabric one after another to
create a formation of police that go
around a garment for example it's good
start with I'm going to be doing the
marking points for the knife pleats now
I'm going to start him from here so I'm
giving myself a seam allowance so from 0
to 3 I'm going to put a mark there in a
moment
do use your preferred measuring tool and
marking 2 and then when it dude do it
every 3 centimeter and make sure that it
is equal and one more there now that is
now forming one nicely and I'm going to
continue going up all the way to the top
okay I'm just gonna go over it just one
more time so I've created my first knife
pleat and I started off with a longer or
bolder line so the first one the middle
and then the next one so I'm going to
put in pins into the first marking for
the first pleat and this is a sec
complete put him there this will help
when you start folding remember two more
and then a longer one or a bolder one
and then put a pin in one two should be
longer on our bolder and you keep going
until you have all your pins in place
now once you've done that the next thing
to do is to pinch whether
and bring it to the third marking place
it in position
take your pin and insert it into the
middle of the pleat like so you have
your first knife plate and I'm going to
continue doing the rest and I'll come
back to you continuing to form my plate
so I pinch one with the pin bring it
over to the third marking put it into
place making sure I match them up get my
pin put it into the middle of the plate
and start on the next one
so pinch for you pin is the first
marking and you're going to bring it
over to your third marking put it in
position get your pin for the inter
middle of the plate and you've now
created your knife pleat
when all your knife pleats are formed
the next thing to do is to take it to
your sewing machine and you can do a
straight row of stitching within the
seam allowance all the way across just
to keep them in place
now make sure that when you are sewing
you pull your pins out as you go along
and you can baste this area if you wish
as well just make sure that your pouch
in each pleat as you go along just point
ends out be sewing within the seam
allowance you're not sure you think it
may be caught just pick your foot up
place it back in position and continue
sewing it's now removed and the knife
pleats and now in position and you can
if you wish press those nice and neat
and you get a nice crisp line or you can
have them what is called loose pleats so
those are your knife pleats
Napoli's are commonly found in skirts
and also addresses but they can be found
in other parts of the garment don't
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