Laser-like focus....

[femkes_follies]

Heh.

Sometimes talking with somebody else helps me achieve it. ;-)

Next web site additions, with luck, will be:

Basic smocking
Smocking in Germanic costume
German Smocked shirt tutorial
Honeycomb smocking - maybe a ladies' chemise

Thoughts?

Comments

[femkederoas.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure just how different modern smocking is from period. ;-) Though there aren't TOO many modern examples of honeycomb smocking, it does happen.

I want to approach it from the perspective of making the garment. So, brief coverage of the basics, then a finished garment.

Always looking for new images. ;-)

Smocked neck shirts are really, really common. What's going on under the gold collars in the saxon dresses is less apparent. I'm not sure that it's a smocked NECK - but I'd buy a cable stitch to hold the pleats where the shirt meets the collar. Especially given the Dutch shirts with the whitework collars that are clearly NOT smocked.

I have my own method of construction - all rectangles and squares, and it works our remarkably well. Sometimes I even cheat and use the selvedge edge and don't have to hem the top edge.