Over the years, I have received some excellent ideas from customers, for example the hand-embroidered socks that I make to go with each dress. It had never occurred to me to embroider socks until a customer asked me if I would embroider a pair to match the dress she was buying for her grand-daughter. I [...]

This is my fourth and final post on the process. After talking about the fabric, floss, gathering and pleating, and embroidering, it’s time to finish the Rabbit Makes a Friend dress. The area to be hand-smocked and hand-embroidered on a girl’s dress doesn’t appear large, until you stop to think about filling that area with [...]

The front of the dress has been gathered and pleated so in this post I’ll begin to talk about the hand-embroidery. Before I could begin embroidering the scene on the front of the Rabbit Makes a Friend dress, I had to make sure that the pleats in the middle were secured. This I do either [...]

I’d like to tell you about the process of gathering and pleating the front of the dress. In my last post, I started taking you through the process of sewing a Rabbit Whiskers dress. I’ve already selected the fabric and embroidery floss. The first step is to gather the dress front. That does two things. [...]

So, you’ve seen the photos of my completed dresses and I’ve told you a bit about my background and interest in smocking. I thought you might like to see the process of sewing dress #393 (Rabbit Makes a Friend). In the next four posts, I’ll try to show you what actually goes into composing one [...]

This page moved > see more images or buy the dress A bouquet of yellow, blue, and white flowers lies in the middle of light-blue smocking, centered on white cotton fabric with light-blue stripes. The bouquet is bordered on both sides by several rows of blue and white smocked designs. Includes a complementary set of [...]