pleat

They can do some very pretty things with pleats these days.

I've been waiting a long time for pleats to go away.

I like the no pleats, and I'm trying to get them into it.

The only problem was that my pleats were still pulling.

"You know you're not supposed to take out the pleats."

I don't know what it is about pleats for me.

Or maybe it just feels that way because pleats make me look fat.

With a little flurry of low pleats, it has turned up on everybody's order.

You will need a pleat and space at each end of the heading for balance.

It was very full and pressed into a thousand pleats.

I'm a slender 6-foot guy, and was brought up reading that as such, you wanted pleats.

Six or more pleats, laid one over the other, are made at the front and tucked in.

Both the hats and the pleats made the first half of his show memorable.

By the way, remind me one day to explain this business of French pleats to you.

The long pleats of her dress contained many things, apparently.

Even while I thought that the wide pleats would hang between my legs a bit.

Fabric can be gathered into pleats in a variety of ways.

"You had to have 18 pleats so precise," she said.

Daniel had noticed her doing that in the past few days, and every time it made his heart pleat.

Pleats can be arranged relative to the pattern in two ways.

It was all about two pleats, then three, then six.

The size of the pleat is a matter of choice.

Make sure all pleats go in the same direction.

Pleat quit in October 1987 following allegations about his private life.

This shirt had the double of button on its pleat.

I pointed to his hands, but he was actually pleating the web.

She picked up a handful of quilt and began pleating it.

She looked down, pleating the quilt between long, graceful fingers.

She looked down at her cotton skirt, pleating it with small, brown fingers.

Fold the border of dough over the apples' edge, pleating it.

She shrugged and started pleating the black lace at her bodice between two fingers.

Pleating machines are typically offered in 16-row, 24-row and 32-row widths.

I start pleating the sheet between finger and thumb.

She concentrated on pleating the fabric of her flowered jumper.

She laughed, pleating the white tablecloth between her fingers.

He eyed me speculatively, pleating his lower Up between his fingers.

She spoke quietly, but her fingers were pleating the fabric of her skirt.

"I call that sensible of her," Sophie said to the bonnet she was pleating silk into.

Daisy was pleating the edge of the tablecloth.

Her fingers nervously pleating the edge of her apron.

Since the early 1950s, pleating machines have been available to home smockers.

Fold border of pastry over edge of filling, pleating every two inches to make it fit.

Stretch the flaps inward so that the filling is covered completely, pleating excess dough as necessary.

She was like a ghost at the table, a shy shadow, watching her brother and pleating her apron with nervous, red fingers.

Loris scowled darkly, then began pleating folds of his robe between nervous fingers.

He looked down at his hand, the long, delicate fingers moving restlessly, pleating the cloth of his breeches.

Damien shot a glance over his shoulder, a disturbed frown pleating his forehead.

It is used in the home when pleating draperies, holding carpets in place and attaching upholstery, among many other things.

Rhysel glanced down at her hands, surprised to find them nervously pleating a section of her skirt.

He smiled briefly, then dropped his eyes, pleating the fabric of his kilt between his fingers.