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Our Online Video Courses

There is an online video course for each Pink Hollybush Pattern as well as our Learn to Smock Course. Take your time, learn a new skill and expand your sewing knowledge.  At Pink Hollybush Designs we teach modern smocking through our courses and patterns so moms and grandmas can create a hand stitched garment that children adore. In particular we focus on helping sewists smock knit garments that busy mamas don't have to iron and that children love to wear because they are so soft and comfortable.

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Learn to Smock Course

Learn to Smock by making a Smocked Ball. This course will take you step by step through picking and prepping the fabric, all the basic smocking stitches, and finally constructing the ball. No sewing machine is required. Bonus material includes using the smocking design as a garment insert. 

Christmas Rose Course

Learn Advanced Smocking Stitches with the Christmas Rose online smocking course. The advanced stitches covered include the Barbed Trellis, Surface Honeycomb, Cretan and Raised Chain Stitches. The icing on the cake of your smocked ornament is the Ruched Rose. 

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Rosie Construction Course

Step by step videos take you through every aspect of making the Rosie dress. Make Rosie in a knit or woven, smocked or just gathered. Bonus materials include an introduction to Stacked Cables, the Christmas Tree Farm smocking plate and directions that appeared in the Holiday 2020 issue of Classic Sewing magazine and measurements to turn Rosie into a top.

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Honey Construction Course

Step by step videos take you through every aspect of making the Honey dress. Honey is a workhorse of a pattern. A basic pull over the head and go square yoke knit dress, Honey can be made with a smocked skirt, a woven smocked insert or just gathers from either the high yoke or mid-yoke. Bonus videos include how to add a contrasting neckbinding and contrasting armband. 

Embroiderd Honey Course

Make and easy Embroidered Honey Dress.  Honey is a simple pull on and go basic square yoke dress.  Made in an easy care cotton knit, this will become her favorite dress! This course will walk you through every aspect of altering the order of construction, preparing the applique and embroidering the dress.  Two designs are included:  Flowers and  Butterflies.

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Twirly Skirt Construction Course

Step by step videos take you through every aspect of constructing the Twirly Skirt in both a knit or woven. The course includes bonus instruction on how to smock both the front and back of the skirt as well as a Bonus Smocking graph.

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May Garden Construction Course

Step by step videos take you through every aspect of constructing the May Garden Jumper. The course includes a Bonus Smocking design that was featured in the Spring 2020 issue of Classic Sewing Magazine.

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Twirly Skirt Construction Course

Step by step videos take you through every aspect of constructing the Twirly Skirt in both a knit or woven. The course includes bonus instruction on how to smock both the front and back of the skirt as well as a Bonus Smocking graph.

July Flowers Construction Course

Have you always wanted to learn to sew? Did you use to sew, but perhaps need a refresher? Sewing isn't hard and in this course I assume you know nothing and walk you step by step through the process of making a beautiful dress. The bonus materials will even enable you to add your own touches to the dress.

But don't take my word for it, the course is free, so check it out!

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