Foremost smocking designer provides complete instructions on how to smock. Over 10 projects, over 100 illus.

This is designed to reveal every secret and answer every question you have of this timeless art. Over a thousand step-by-step photographs bring smocking within reach of anyone who can thread a needle.

Two dozen patterns to enhance clothing, pillows, purses, and other special items. All designs shown in color on covers.

Adventurous sewers have embraced the style again, experimenting with new methods and materials and inventing fresh effects. Exciting original designs all appear in color photos. “A showcase of smocking combined with decorative stitches and embroidery...filled with beautiful projects....Very good diagrams and instructions on how to smock for the beginner.”—Doll Crafter

Part of the bestselling A-Z series of specialist needlework books, this extensive how-to text focuses on garment construction for smocking enthusiasts and is the ideal companion to the A–Z of Smocking. Presented in an easy to use style, this book is overflowing with hundreds of step-by-step photographs and invaluable hints for creating beautiful heirloom garments from blouses to bridesmaids' dresses.

Introduces the fundamentals of smocking and provides instructions and diagrams for making smocked nightgowns, blouses, dresses, jackets, and children's clothes.

“Smocking has been revived as the interest in hand-decorated surfaces increases...Page after page of patterns...each with color graph photograph of finished design, and written directions... include(s) pointers on fabrics, stitch instructions, and symbols....Patterns reflect popular favorites, holidays, and ease of implementation. Easter becomes an egg; animals include domestic and wild; and fruits, vegetables, toys, and people showcase familiar objects—apples, hyacinths, bicycles, and more.”—Booklist.