Originally Posted by
mom-6
What an adorable little one and such a lovely dress! I learned how to do smocking when DD was little. There were so many cute patterns! Do you have a pleater, or do you do it with the transfer dots? The favorite one I made DD was one on fabric with tiny polka dots that I just used the dots of the fabric to do my pleating. Wish I knew what happened to my pleater...guess it went the way of the many things that were lost when our house burned a dozen years ago.
I'm sorry to hear that you lost your pleater. I bought mine on eBay when I started learning to smock. I was living in NC at the time and there were places that I could get things pleated but I knew that when I went back to Michigan I wouldn't be able to find anyone to do it. So I bought one. Now that I've said that, someone will come back and say that they live in Michigan and smock. I just don't know anyone here that does it. It's pretty popular in the South... like where you are in Texas.