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The A-Z of Smocking is designed to reveal every secret and answer every question you have on this timeless art. There are over a thousand step-by-step photographs that enable even the beginner to smock beautifully. This is the most comprehensive smocking book ever published.

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A-Z of Smocking
The Third Book in the Successful AZ Series

Pages: 128
Page size: 8 1/2" x 9"
Publisher: Quilter's Resource Publications
Cover: Hard with Covered Spiral Binding
Item Code: 4Q0075
Weight: 1.2 lb

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The A-Z of Smocking is designed to reveal every secret and answer every question you have on this timeless art. Over a thousand step-by-step photographs bring smocking within reach of anyone who can thread a needle.

The book will teach you how to work the stitches, read graphs and select colors, fabric and threads. It will show you how to pleat and block a garment, give advice on different techniques such as ribbon weaving, counterchange, template and freeform smocking and much more.

It is bursting with hints, ideas and inspirational photographs which will unleash your creativity. This comprehensive manual is presented in the same way as the ever popular AZ of Bullions and the top selling AZ of Embroidery Stitches. 128 pages of smocking heaven.

Introduction	2	Horizontal smocking	68
Fabric	4	Inserts	69
Threads	5	Jigsaw smocking	70
Needles	6	Knits, smocking on	70
Securing the thread	7	Laundering smocking	73
Smocking terms	9	Lefthanders	73
Accent stitches	10	Mirror image rows	73
Back stitch	10	Outline stitch	74
Background smocking	10	Picture smocking	75
Backsmocking	11	Pistil stitch	80
Bargello smocking	12	Plaid smocking	80
Beads in smocking	13	Pleaters	81
Bishop garments	15	Preparation and pleating	81
Blocking and shaping	15	Prints, smocking on	95
Bullion knot	20	Raised lattice stitch	96
Buttonholes in pleats	28	Ribbon, smocking with	97
Cable stitch	29	Ribbon weaving	97
Centering designs	33	Round yoke garments	98
Chain stitch	34	Satin stitch	99
Colonial knot	36	Seed stitch	100
Colour	37	Sheaf stitch	100
Combinations	37	Square yoke garments	101
Counterchange smocking	38	Star stitch	102
Crossover smocking	48	Stem stitch	103
Design graphs	50	Straight stitch	104
Detached chain	51	Stripes, smocking on	104
Diagonal smocking	52	Tartans, smocking on	105
Dolls, smocking for	53	Template smocking	105
Embroidery on smocking	53	Traditional smocking	106
English smocking	53	Trailing vine	106
Fabric manipulation	53	Trellis stitch	108
Feather stitch	54	Unpicking (reverse smocking)	113
Flowerette	58	Van Dyke stitch	114
Fly stitch	61	Vertical ladder stitch	117
Freeform smocking	61	Vertical smocking	118
French knot	62	Wave stitch	118
Geometric smocking	62	Zigzag stitches	125
Honeycomb stitch	66	Index	126
		Bibliography	128