Rocking Smocking A Guide to Smocking for the Modern Sewist |
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Author:
| Burch, Laura McLaren, Kasja |
ISBN: | 978-1-80092-223-5 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2024 |
Publisher: | Search Press, Limited
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $19.95 |
Book Description:
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A guide to sewing beautiful and modern smocking for the modern sewist. Rocking Smocking is a contemporary guide to using joyful colour and bold graphic pattern to create smocking that adds a beautiful decorative touch to handmade garments. This image-led, modern guide is suited to both smocking learners and experts as well as lovers of colours and patterns. Offering both instruction and inspiration this fashion-forward guide walks you through the basics...
More Description A guide to sewing beautiful and modern smocking for the modern sewist. Rocking Smocking is a contemporary guide to using joyful colour and bold graphic pattern to create smocking that adds a beautiful decorative touch to handmade garments. This image-led, modern guide is suited to both smocking learners and experts as well as lovers of colours and patterns.
Offering both instruction and inspiration this fashion-forward guide walks you through the basics of English smocking and offers a kaleidoscope of ideas for how to bring these hand stitches to life by combining thread colours, stitch motifs, and dramatic smocking placement to fabulous effect.
- It starts by setting out the basics of smocking--what you will need, how to choose and prepare fabric, and basic stitches.
- The second section lays out different strategies for choosing thread colours
- The third section goes through the design process: using 10 smocking panels to replicate at home, it shows readers how to rock their smocks by blending fabrics, smocking patterns, and colors to sensational graphic effect
- The final section looks at how and where to place smocked panels on your garments, adding volume to dramatic effect with 6 smaller on-trend fashion projects.
Equally appealing on the coffee table or in the studio, Rocking Smocking is a visually beautiful guide celebrating modern applications of this ancient craft.