Perfecting Picture Smocking: The Secrets to Successful

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Perfecting Picture Smocking: The Secrets to Successful Stacking

Learn how to create picture smocking to enhance adorable classic garments for your loved ones and embellish other items in Laura Jenkins Thompsonâ€™s popular book, Perfecting Picture Smocking. Through concise instructions and over 140 detailed illustrations, Laura shows you step-by-step, from start to finish, how to form smocked figures using stacked cables. Besides sharing her â€œSecrets to Successful Stackingâ€ Laura gives invaluable tips on color, fabrics, patterns, pleating, and construction. Lauraâ€™s easy methods have long enchanted students from coast to coast. Now you, too, can share in the pleasures given by this delightful form of needlework.

Perfecting Picture Smocking: The Secrets to Successful Stacking