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bedouin
Fort Lauderdale, FL
(Zone 10b)
January 10, 2008
01:48 AM Post #4382737
| I've just completed some smoked childrens dresses and pinafores. Very enjoyable and pretty end results. I wonder if many people still do this craft? 
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bedouin
Fort Lauderdale, FL
(Zone 10b)
January 10, 2008
02:22 AM Post #4382776
| Smocked dress and pinnies 2007 
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Jeannie63
Mequon, WI
(Zone 4b)
January 10, 2008
09:40 AM Post #4383183
| bedouin - Yes I do smocking! Check out my post on Sewing and Quilting from November 6, 2007 (sorry don't know how to get a link in here) |
CindyInAZ
Tempe, AZ
(Zone 9a)
January 10, 2008
10:53 AM Post #4383418
| Beautiful work bedouin. I always wanted to try smocking. Here is the link to Jeannie63's thread - what a beautiful garment and such a darling model
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/773207/ |
dguimo
Pioneer, CA
January 10, 2008
02:10 PM Post #4384057
| Your work is beautiful!! I've always loved smocking but never tried it myself. |
cpartschick
Gladwin, MI
(Zone 5a)
January 11, 2008
07:26 AM Post #4386500
| Never did it, but it is never out of style. Lovely work.
Glad to see someone is still doing things like this. Exceptional. There will be some lucky little girls looking very lovely in these. |
bedouin
Fort Lauderdale, FL
(Zone 10b)
January 11, 2008
12:28 PM Post #4387422
| I'm still a bit 'fumbly' but I'm re-learning! Still working with the 'easy' designs and picture cards!...
Cindy, thanks for the link to Jeannie's thread.
Jeannie, I have that little fish picture card. I'm delighted to see it completed. I've completed the sewing of another pinny and think it will be a very nice motif for it. Hope its not too difficult! Did you do back-smocking on the wrong side? |
jasmerr
Merrimac, WI
(Zone 4b)
January 11, 2008
12:36 PM Post #4387446
| Are these done by hand or is there a smocking machine I'm not aware of? I'm wondering because you mentioned a picture card.
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When my DD was younger we had a dryer fire (thankfully contained to the laundry room) and most of her clothes were destroyed. A friend at work gave me several smocked dresses for her. On top of the beautiful smocking they were "spinner" dresses - she absolutely loved them.! |
bedouin
Fort Lauderdale, FL
(Zone 10b)
January 11, 2008
01:01 PM Post #4387562
| A 'pleater' is used to do all the pleating so they come out 100% evenly. http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls...
The alternative way to achieve the pleats is to 'iron on' manufactured patterns of 'dots' which usually are enslosed in smocking patterns. (Simplicity, Vogue etc).
The 'picture cards' , 'smocking plates, are designs with instructions on 'how to'.
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&satitle=sm...
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls...
Garden Fairies: basic instruction etc.
http://www.smockingstore.com/ |
jasmerr
Merrimac, WI
(Zone 4b)
January 11, 2008
01:09 PM Post #4387607
| Thanks, bedouin! |
Jeannie63
Mequon, WI
(Zone 4b)
January 11, 2008
01:25 PM Post #4387673
| bedouin, yes I did back smocking on the wrong side. My next project has a design with little bees dressed up like bunnies! Had to put my smocking aside during the holidays so I could get Christmas gifts done, now I am itching to get back.
By the way, your work is just beautiful! |
Raggedyann
Lawrenceville, GA
(Zone 7b)
January 11, 2008
01:31 PM Post #4387688
| I know there is someone here that I am supposed to find some Raggedy Ann smocking patterns for. I dug where I thought they were and still am looking. I've been dusting and hiding junk because we are having our house blessed for the new year. Shhhh, don't tell hubby that I'm stuffing his piles of paper in the kitchen cabinet! LOL
My new years resolution is to DOWNSIZE!!! I am getting rid of music related memorabilia, Raggedy Ann and Andy stuff, I promise to find the patterns!!!!!!!!! DON'T GIVE UP HOPE ON ME!
Susan ;) |
jasmerr
Merrimac, WI
(Zone 4b)
January 11, 2008
01:37 PM Post #4387711
| I love Raggedy Ann and Andy dolls and have thought (again) about making some. |
Jeannie63
Mequon, WI
(Zone 4b)
January 11, 2008
01:39 PM Post #4387726
| Susan that was me you were going to send the Raggedy Ann/Andy stuff to. I am in no hurry so don't fret! It's not like I have nothing else to do :) |
bedouin
Fort Lauderdale, FL
(Zone 10b)
January 11, 2008
02:38 PM Post #4387991
| I enjoy doing the needlework in the evening.
Ah, I know exactly what you mean! The construction contractors start here on the 1st Feb - I'm supposed to be going through boxes to toss stuff out and here I'm sitting at the computer! Have to complete a doll by the 15th Jan for my new GD. Plus, remove plants which will be trampelled on with giant boot shod feet! And plant the Kumquat tree as well as the Eau de Cologne tree... Its called 'procrastination' on my part...Ok, thats it. Time to work! |
MaypopLaurel
Cleveland,GA/Atlanta, GA
(Zone 7b)
March 17, 2008
08:09 PM Post #4676246
| Gosh Bedouin, it's so beautiful. I don't do it, but it is one of the needle arts I really appreciate. I do hand embroidery, applique, bead work and study Japanese embroidery (nuido). Please post more, but try not to distract me as I don't need a new direction >).
Laurel
P.S. I'm from N.M.B. |
