This piece was a total experiment, stitched freehand as a challenge to break free of the normal boundaries of graphed smocking pieces/designs. Download pattern. Read more in our Issue 58. Designed by Judith Marquis Amberlane & Amberpetites www.amberlane.ca
Several years ago, while working as a smocking teacher at a knitting shop in Aurora, ON. I spent quiet store hours browsing knitting books and magazines for ideas for my smocking designs. This is where inspiration came to me for the original piece photographed here. I worked it out but couldn’t find a place to […]
I first saw Dragon Scales, a technique by Gillian Conahan, while doing research for the articles on The Beauty of Texture series. At that time, I couldn’t see how to work it in nor had I the time to play with what appeared to be a totally different sort of fabric manipulation. It stuck in […]
Here’s Part 3, another exciting instalment of The Beauty of Texture, and all its possibilities and variations smocking can have. This instalment focuses on Arrowhead Smocking. Read more in our Issue 48. Download the PDF pattern now. Designed by Judith Marquis Amberlane & Amberpetites www.amberlane.ca [email protected]
Most people think of little girls’ dresses when the term smocking is mentioned. Oh, how many times have I heard “My mother smocked all my dresses when I was just a child” or “It’s lovely but a dying art”. Well I can tell you that neither of these two statements is true today! In this […]