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Thank you all for looking and the warm welcome.
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a beautiful dress!
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Originally Posted by toogie
(Post 8179983)
I was self taught and when I first started, I had no pleater, so every time we were in the car I was stitching from dot to dot, to make my pleats. My husband asked me on the way to a wake one time, (yes I was stitching on the way-lol) how much a pleater cost. When I told him, he said order one. He didn't have to tell me twice. That was my last dot to dot gathering-lol
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I always like seeing little girls in dresses. Yours is awesome!
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Welcome to our board. I love your work and would have loved to try smocking. Unfortunately all I had were boys! My oldest dad wore dresses and I made several for her. When she was little she only wanted dresses that “danced” ie full skirts. My youngest wouldn’t wear anything really frilly after she was about 6. Now at 13 neither she or her friends seem to wear anything but leggings and t-shirts.
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[ATTACH=CONFIG]605633[/ATTACH]Maviskw-this is a pleater. It 'folds' the fabric like even gathering, into valleys and hills, so you can stitch on the hills.Look at the yoke picture where I took out the pleating toward the armholes. I hope I explained it for you. A pleater prepares you for the smocking.
Originally Posted by maviskw
(Post 8180080)
I would like to know what a pleater would do. Does it look like smocking? I have a "ruffler" which does pleating, too, but it doesn't do something that would look like smocking.
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I have a pleater but never use it. Played with it once. I did not like the way the sewing machine laid the pleats flat. I cannot do intricate hand work. Yours is beautiful!
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Your work is outstanding! My girls and granddaughters are past the age of dresses, though I sewed dresses for all of them thru the years. Alas, I never could get smocking right!
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Very pretty dress. The last time I smocked a dress was in 1976 when my daughter was 5!
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The closest my daughter got to wearing smocked dresses was when Polly Flanders dresses were available!
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