On the Great British Sewing Bee this year one of the challenges was to created a smocked item of clothing for a child. They were using machine smocking. It created a little desire in me to try hand smocking, and today I started. Oooh my!
The first step is either transferring dots to the fabric, or buying a fabric with regular spots on it. I chose the latter. It's simple enough, created a very regularly, tightly pleated piece of fabric by putting many lines of running stitch through the fabric. I am going into the fabric immediately before the dot, and coming out again immediately after it.
This is going to take some time!
