How do you fix pleats of a skirt?
Question:I've put my dry-clean only skirt in a machine washer, now some of the thread has unraveled. How do you fix the pleats with sewing/ an ironing combo? The skirt has four tiers of pleats, and only one tier has slightly been undone, about 6 in. worth.
Answers:
First carefully iron your skirt, line up each pleat and press it in.
When you come to the part where the thread unravelled, press it carefully. If you have any straight pins, pin it down and after you have pressed the pleat back in place, sew it.
You didn't say if it was top-stitched or if the seam came apart,
if its topstitched, find matching thread and if you have a sewing machine, top stitch it back down, making sure to match the length of the stitches with the rest of the top-stitching. (Ususally the top stitching is a larger stitch than
you would use for a regular seam.) If its a seam, turn the
skirt inside out after you have pressed the pleat and carefully
pin it on the inside, then sew the seam down. If you plan to wash the skirt regularly, you may want to sew over the seams
to make sure they will hold up to the washing machine, it sounds like the construction is shoddy, the seams weren't
backstitched or the thread was weak. If you do wash it again, you may find the same problem, again.
you have to resew anything that has come undone then steam the pleats in.
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