I once made a simple black and white gingham baby shirt, with spaghetti straps, for my daughter using this hand-smocking technique. I saw the instructions for smocking a different garment in a vintage Handi-Crafts periodical, and decided to try it for my baby's shirt. It looked so smart on my daughter! You explain the process so well...that is a blessing to a lot of people, I am sure! Blessings from Texas!
Other question for you. Can you tell me if the end result is the same with your technique compare to the other technique where each row has a basting stitch and pulling these basting stitches to make pleats before joining dots together. What is the difference? Thanks.
It would be easier to do if you have pleater threads to hold the pleats but more time consuming as you have to pick up all the dots first. If you re in the UK and can buy my dots then go that way, if you are overseas or cannot get dots easily then to mark out the dots with a ruler and suitable pen then choose that option. Hope this helps.
@House of Smocking Christine Clark I looked on my local fabric store website and they dont seem to carry that particular product. On other sites I found ir but it says that it is 6 strands, so you probably divide it in 2?
I once made a simple black and white gingham baby shirt, with spaghetti straps, for my daughter using this hand-smocking technique. I saw the instructions for smocking a different garment in a vintage Handi-Crafts periodical, and decided to try it for my baby's shirt. It looked so smart on my daughter!
You explain the process so well...that is a blessing to a lot of people, I am sure!
Blessings from Texas!
Thank you so much and your spagetti dress sounds lovely
Thank you for your clear, concise and informative tutorial; I was really struggling to get this and now I have.
Thank you for this tutorial! It was easy to follow and I found this to be an effective method :)
Thank you, glad it was of help, I know we usually pleat up first, but I didn't think there was a need.
finally I understand how this is done! thank you very much!
So helpful! Thank you so much my lady!
You are welcome 😊
Other question for you. Can you tell me if the end result is the same with your technique compare to the other technique where each row has a basting stitch and pulling these basting stitches to make pleats before joining dots together. What is the difference? Thanks.
It would be easier to do if you have pleater threads to hold the pleats but more time consuming as you have to pick up all the dots first. If you re in the UK and can buy my dots then go that way, if you are overseas or cannot get dots easily then to mark out the dots with a ruler and suitable pen then choose that option. Hope this helps.
Thanks a lot❤️
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Would you tell me the exact thread that you used. DMC has a lot of different threads and I would like to try this project. Thanks.
@House of Smocking Christine Clark I looked on my local fabric store website and they dont seem to carry that particular product. On other sites I found ir but it says that it is 6 strands, so you probably divide it in 2?