Treasury of Smocking Designs

Author: Allyne S. Holland
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486152510
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 50

Book Description
Two dozen patterns to enhance clothing, pillows, purses, and other special items. All designs shown in color on covers.

155 Smocking Designs

Author: Theresa Santoso
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780806922508
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
“Smocking has been revived as the interest in hand-decorated surfaces increases...Page after page of patterns...each with color graph photograph of finished design, and written directions... include(s) pointers on fabrics, stitch instructions, and symbols....Patterns reflect popular favorites, holidays, and ease of implementation. Easter becomes an egg; animals include domestic and wild; and fruits, vegetables, toys, and people showcase familiar objects—apples, hyacinths, bicycles, and more.”—Booklist.

Smocking

Author: Dianne Durand
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486237886
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 62

Book Description
Foremost smocking designer provides complete instructions on how to smock. Over 10 projects, over 100 illus.

Creative Smocking

Author: Chris Rankin
Publisher: Lark Books (NC)
ISBN: 9781579903862
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 112

Book Description
Adventurous sewers have embraced the style again, experimenting with new methods and materials and inventing fresh effects. Exciting original designs all appear in color photos. “A showcase of smocking combined with decorative stitches and embroidery...filled with beautiful projects....Very good diagrams and instructions on how to smock for the beginner.”—Doll Crafter

Dianne Durand's Complete Book of Smocking

Author: Dianne Durand
Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
ISBN: 9780442245108
Category : Smocking
Languages : en
Pages : 136

Book Description
Introduces the fundamentals of smocking and provides instructions and diagrams for making smocked nightgowns, blouses, dresses, jackets, and children's clothes.

Heirloom Sewing for Today

Author: Sandy Hunter
Publisher: Sterling Publishing (NY)
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 136

Book Description
Heirlooms for the home, to wear, or as gifts; use fine laces and fabrics, new or from vintage clothing shops.

Encyclopedia of Embroidery Stitches, Including Crewel

Author: Marion Nichols
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486139778
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 233

Book Description
Precise explanations and instructions, clearly illustrated, on how to work chain, back, cross, knotted, woven stitches, and many more — 178 in all, including Cable Outline, Whipped Satin, and Eyelet Buttonhole. Over 1400 illustrations.

Picture Smocking with Ellen McCarn

Author: Ellen McCarn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780961806620
Category : Smocking
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

Celtic Animals Charted Designs

Author: Ina Kliffen
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486291253
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 56

Book Description
Forty-three carefully designed color-coded charts depict bizarre mythical creatures that abound in Celtic art. Complete instructions and easy-to-follow diagrams enable even beginning needlecrafters to create a wealth of fabulous patterns that will embellish clothing, linens, and other domestic items.

Sewing for a Royal Baby

Author: Sew Beautiful Magazine Editors
Publisher: Martha Pullen
ISBN: 9781878048813
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 144

Book Description
Any time a royal event takes place--a wedding, a birth--the world takes notice and what captures their attention first is the royal attire. Who would not want their own little prince and princess to be just as beautifully dressed? Sewing for a Royal Baby includes three designs inspired by actual royal garments, including the royal christening gown, as well as a variety of fine heirloom designs exclusively selected by the editors of Sew Beautiful Magazine. Sewing for a Royal Baby allows new mothers and grandmothers to create a royal wardrobe for their new little one using the complete patterns and instructions provided with the book and accompanying CD. The patterns are sized differently according to the style, but the gowns start at newborn and go up to 18 months. The bubble goes up to 24 months. Toddler dresses go up to size 4 and the boys' pieces go up to size 3. The companion CD contains all of the project patterns plus two additional slip patterns, the complete Vintage Royal Alphabet machine embroidery template, and most of the embroidery designs (hand and machine) in the book, as well as some applique designs, and technique descriptions for: Shadow embroidery Geometric smocking Basic French sewing Lace shaping Hand embroidery Shark's teeth Plackets Neck bindings Piping From bonnets and booties to breathtaking christening gowns and sweet toddler looks, Sewing for the Royal Baby inspires sewists to create a wardrobe fit for a little prince or princess using a variety of heirloom sewing techniques.