Learn Dress Making and Designing

Smocking  is an embroidery technique used to gather fabric so that it can stretch. Before elastic,  smocking  was commonly used in cuffs, bodices, and necklines in garments where buttons were undesirable. ...  Smocking  was used most extensively in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. decoration on a garment created by gathering a section of the material into tight pleats and holding them together with parallel stitches in an ornamental pattern.by  Here are some easy and DIY beautiful smocking designs.  You can stitch by by hand to make your Garments more elegant.  You can even use these beautiful designs and techniques on Cushions and bedding.  Look at these elegant looking designs try for your next sewing project.  Hope you like this easy DIY sewing technique for designing and dress making. Try this skill on different type of fabrics.