Video tutorial showing how to easily adapt Simplicity 9141 to add hand smocking.

Smocking, Heirloom, and Classic Sewing in Australia. Patterns, fabric, trims, notions, ready-to-smock, books, and magazines and more.

Smocking for adults is simple with these 5 patterns.

I sew fun garments for myself and my daughter. I use lots of boutique patterns and smocking.

Rocking Smocking: A guide to smocking for the modern sewist: Burch, Laura, McLaren, Kasja: 9781800922235: Books - Amazon.ca

What an interesting project this has turned out to be. A quirky embroidery pattern – Briggs transfer P621-D677 “Smocked Blouse” – has allowed me to recreate a look that mig…

This video tutorial shows how to hand pleat fabric for smocking and provides several reasons why you may choose to hand pleat.

Love smocking! I feel an artistic push to experiment with smocking on more adult garments! The “long top over leggings” look seemed promising. The muslin (actually a teal linen blend) …

A mixture between my two loves: Antique and vintage fashion, and comedian George Carlin.

milkmaid smock light blue linen smock blouse with 3/4 front button placket closure, hand embroidered english smocking on the chest, back and sleeves with custom embroidery on the collar and each side of the smocking panels. hand embroidered buttonholes with antique shell buttons made in the kent countryside