A guide to sewing beautiful and modern smocking for modern makers of all levels.
Rocking Smocking is a contemporary guide to using joyful color and graphic pattern to create smocking that adds a beautiful decorative touch to handmade garments. This image-heavy guide is suited to both smocking learners and experts.
Offering both instruction and inspiration, this fashion-forward guide walks you through the basics of English smocking and offers a kaleidoscope of ideas for how to bring these hand stitches to life by combining thread colours, stitch motifs, and dramatic smocking placement to fabulous effect.
It starts with the basics of smocking—what you will need, how to choose and prepare fabric, and basic stitches. The second section lays out different strategies for choosing thread colors. The third section goes through the design process: using 10 smocking panels to replicate at home, it shows readers how to rock their smocks by blending fabrics, smocking patterns, and colors to sensational effect. The final section looks at how and where to place smocked panels on your garments, adding volume and dramat with 6 smaller fashion projects.
"Rocking Smocking" is a visually beautiful guide celebrating modern applications of this ancient craft.
Paperback, 128 pages
