How to make Heather Ross’s smocked sundress from her book Weekend Sewing
is shared on The storque.
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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.
HI HEATHER, I SOW THE VIDEO A MILLION TIMES AND I CAN NOT FIND THE ELASTIC THAT YOU TALKED ABOUT, ALL I FOUND IS THE THIN TREATH ELASTIC AND I WANT TO KNOW WERE CAN I GET IT, PLEASE GUIDE ME I WANT TO MAKE MY GRANDDAUGHTER HER FIRST SMOKED SUNDRESS MADE BY ME, I HAD TO BUY ALREADY DONE BUT IT IS NOT THE SAME, PLEASE REPLY, THANK YOU, JOLIE
Hi Jolie
You will have to ask this question to Heather directly – please go to her website – click on the link in the post.
thanks
Kathreen
I sow you at the Martha Stewart show, but I tried several times and I the elastic that you use I can not find, I even got your magazine but no luck, please tell me when I can find that the magic elastic or I will buy it from you, thatk you very much, hoping to hear from you, Jolie