Rocking Smocking
A Guide to Smocking for the Modern Sewist
$28.75
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
23 February 2024
Summary
Rocking Smocking is a contemporary guide to using joyful colour and bold graphic pattern to create smocking that adds a beautiful decorative touch to handmade garments. This image-led, modern guide is suited to both smocking learners and experts as well as lovers of colours and patterns. Offering both instruction and inspiration this fashion-forward guide walks you through the basics of English smocking and offers a kaleidoscope of ideas for how to bring these hand stitches to life by combini…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781800922235 |
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| ISBN-10: | 180092223X |
| Author: | Laura Burch, Kajsa Mclaren |
| Publisher: | Search Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | Search Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 23 February 2024 |
| Weight: | 432g |
| Dimensions: | 9mm x 190mm x 246mm |
Critics Review
Rocking Smocking shows how to use vibrant colours and graphic patterns to create stunning garments. Suitable for beginners and experts alike, there are instructions and inspiration for English smocking basics, thread colour selection and design processes. Learn how to experiment with blending fabrics, stitch motifs and colours to achieve spectacular graphic effects.
– CrossStitcher Magazine * Issue 406 *A modern and visually appealing guide that offers both instruction and inspiration for those interested in English smocking. The book covers the basics of smocking, fabric preparation and basic stitches. It also provides different strategies for choosing thread colours and explains the design process. The book includes 10 smocking panels that readers can replicate at home to achieve sensational effects. It includes six smaller on-trend fashion projects that demonstrate how and where to place smocked panels on garments to add volume and drama. Whatever your project aspirations, Rocking Smocking is a visually beautiful guide celebrating modern applications of this traditional craft.
– Stitch Magazine * Issue 147 *Laura Burch
Laura Burch and Kajsa Mclaren are lifelong friends who launched their brand Smock London in 2019. They met at Oxford University, where they bonded over their shared passion for design, craftmanship, and color. They modernize the beautiful craft of smocking for the 21st century through a combination of bright, bold, and original smocking design.
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