How-To: Hand Pleating and Smocking

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Haley Pierson-Cox from Red-Handled Scissors is a maker of crafts, a lover of cats, an avid swearing enthusiast, a cross-stitch book author, and a general purveyor of quirk. She's also sometimes an irritable cartoon named Tiny Cranky Haley. https://www.redhandledscissors.com

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October 6th, 2011 3

I do a lot of embroidery, but I rarely consider methods that go beyond the usual hand-stitches on flat surfaces. That’s why I find these hand-pleating and hand-smocking tutorials from Marie Grace Designs to be so fascinating—it’s like embroidery design in 3D!

While the projects don’t look like they’re for the faint of heart or the short of patience, the results certainly are complex and beautiful.
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3 thoughts on “How-To: Hand Pleating and Smocking”

Thread says:

November 1st, 2013 at 11:34 am

amazingly beautiful work, how much patience do you need for that?
Pam Gurganus Wynne says:

April 23rd, 2015 at 7:18 am

Well this didnt tell me a thing about how to smock.
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August 13th, 2015 at 10:45 am

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How-To: Hand Pleating and Smocking

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