Do you remember the iron-on transfers, with just the dots that you ironed on to whatever you wanted to smock? Make it whatever size you wanted.
That was how I did my first smocked yoke on the maternity dress. Then I felt confident enough to go to the woven gingham and count the dots.
Originally Posted by
SunlitenSmiles
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smocking was always most accurate for me on (woven) gingham and dotted swiss (the real kind not the printed kind)