smocked dress
 

[ATTACH=CONFIG]605603[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]605604[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]605605[/ATTACH] Here is the last smocked dress I made. It was my granddaughter Easter dress last year, made off of the Frannie pattern, by Especially For You. I am new here and when I posted on 'Introduce Yourself' someone wanted to see my smocking. (I finally resized small enough to upload these photos. Hope she sees this post.)-Toogie

i have difficulty sizing my photos & have given up posting here. but i love the dress! i used to smock by hand ..my smocking bars haven't been used in many many years ...& i only did home dec things. you do beautiful work. and welcome to the board!

Very beautiful!! Smocking is so pretty but sadly not seen much anymore. I've smocked a bit and I once taught smocking to a class of seventh graders. My MIL does stunning smocking and makes my daughters lovely dresses.

Welcome to the QB!

nicely done

both sides, front and back. Wow. it is lovely. i've never done smocking.

Very pretty smocking.

I tried smocking when my girls were little I just couldn't get the hang of it.

Very nice, good job !

I know what you mean by sadly not seen much. My oldest grand daughter is 18 now but when she was 6 she told me she had enough dresses. However, when my youngest daughter had her girls, she said as long as I made them she would dress them. She loves to dress them as much as they like to be dressed up, so it works out good for me, too.u

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