This is a very sweet little dress but the method used is actually “shirring” and not “smocking” at all. Traditional English Smocking consists of regular gathers on the wrong side of the fabric done by using a gathering machine or done by hand using a series of regular spaced dots which are then gathered by hand. The front or right side of the fabric is then “smocked” using various overcast stitches catching a part of each pleat. When done the gathering threads are removed and the fabric is stretchy.
Comment:
This entry was posted on Sunday, August 16th, 2009 at 8:59 pm and is filed under sewing+quilting+fabric.
You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments.
You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site.
Your comments will be moderated but will appear as soon as humanly possible.
August 18th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
This is a very sweet little dress but the method used is actually “shirring” and not “smocking” at all. Traditional English Smocking consists of regular gathers on the wrong side of the fabric done by using a gathering machine or done by hand using a series of regular spaced dots which are then gathered by hand. The front or right side of the fabric is then “smocked” using various overcast stitches catching a part of each pleat. When done the gathering threads are removed and the fabric is stretchy.