How to smock tutorials step by step

If you want to give a gift by sewing baby clothes for your kids, girl smocked dresses are the most versatile and simple of all styles. One pattern can create an entire wardrobe for kids. Novices ne…

Smocking is done by using small stitches to gather fabric in a pattern. You can use it to create little rows of pretty pleats with colorful stitching, the perfect detail for a child's dress or the bodice of a blouse. See Step 1 to learn a...

I only took one picture of the smocking step when I learned how to smock in the embroidery hoop, but I think words will explain the rest of the process well enough for you to play around with it. …

This video tutorial shows how to hand pleat fabric for smocking and provides several reasons why you may choose to hand pleat.

Haute couture for a baby? It feels alike. Just kidding. In a way it`s like yoga for me. I love hand embroidering. It`s so meditative. The same stitches over and over again, while you let your thoug…

A step by step tutorial on how to stitch the basic cable stitch used in English Smocking.

Shirring is an old technique, I know. (Shirring and smocking aren’t actually originally done with elastic…..but it sure makes things easier. And faster.) Sometimes I assume everyone knows how to do it. But then I get another email asking how to shir (or smock) fabric. So it reminds me I shouldn’t assume…………..because it is …

Smocking is done by using small stitches to gather fabric in a pattern. You can use it to create little rows of pretty pleats with colorful stitching, the perfect detail for a child's dress or the bodice of a blouse. See Step 1 to learn a...

Smocking is a needlework technique in which fabric is stitched into three dimensional details. Learn one stitch with this smocking tutorial.

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