The craft -- Colour choices -- Designs -- Placement -- Start to finish.
Summary:
A guide to sewing beautiful and modern smocking for the modern sewist. Rocking Smocking is a contemporary guide to using joyful color and bold graphic pattern to create smocking that adds a beautiful decorative touch to handmade garments. This image-led, modern guide is suited to both smocking learners and experts as well as lovers of colors and patterns. 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 colors, stitch motifs, and dramatic smocking placement to fabulous effect.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.