Smocking stitches are done with regular embroidery thread. If you make very slack stitches the cloth needed will be less.
But then it also depends on the tightness of the smocking stitches. ie if you want a final smocked piece of 10 inches you need to take 30 inches cloth to do the smocking. You need atleast 3 times the cloth for the width of the final piece. How much extra cloth is needed to do smocking ? A plain fabric can also be taken, if the guidelines for the pleats are correctly made. A knit fabric or a velvet fabric as a first project would be difficult to tackle. I am assuming that you do not have a pleater. You can choose plain or printed cotton, poplin, cotton lawn, silk, satin, cotton blends, organdie, lightweight denim and lightweight wool blends.Ī beginner can choose a checked cotton fabric as there is already a guideline for you to gather the fabric evenly. You name the fabric and it has been smocked by women in earlier timesĪ light to medium weight evenly woven fabric with a smooth surface is ideal for smocking. Linen, crepe, silk, lawn cotton, ginghams, velvet, chiffon, lace, knits. Most of the time other embroidery details like flower designs are done along with smocking. To do smocking, regular gathers (or pleats) are taken on the fabric with long stitches on the back and very small stitches in the front. Smocking is a design technique to control the fullness in a piece of fabric, with beautiful embroidery stitches.
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How to add smocked fabric to your clothes.How much extra cloth is needed to do smocking ?.
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