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Smocking: The Basics
 |  A history of where smocking came from and how it started. |
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 Learn how to smock by making a Christmas Ornament or insert for a garment! This course will take you step by step through picking and prepping your fabric, all the basic smocking stitches, and finally constructing the ornament. |  video tutorial on how to add a smocked insert to a pattern. |
 A video tutorial on the best needles to use for smocking. |  A video tutorial on how to block a bishop neckline for smocking. |
 Pleating a bishop seamlessly avoids lumps from the seams & broken pleater needles. |  Pleater recommendations and video on how to pleat woven fabric. |
 3 Situations when you might want to hand pleat and a tutorial showing how. |  Step by step directions on how to read a smocking graph. |
 An explanation of how to center your smocking design. |  How to choose a fabric for your first smocking project. |
 Recommended sewing patterns to use for your first smocked garment. |  A step by step video tutorial on how to clean your pleater |
 Tips for picking floss colors for smocking on prints |  Adding side panels to a smocked insert. |
 The History of Picture Smocking. |
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