Rocking Smocking - Laura Burch

Rocking Smocking by Laura Burch and Kajsa Mclaren is a contemporary guide to creating smocking with joyful colour and bold graphic pattern. This paperback edition presents an image-led approach to English smocking, combining instruction with modern design ideas.

Key details

• Authors: Laura Burch and Kajsa Mclaren
• Subtitle: A guide to smocking for the modern sewist
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 128
• Publisher: Search Press
• Publication date: 23 February 2024

Synopsis

Designed to be both practical and visually striking, this guide explores how thread colour, stitch motifs and bold placement can transform smocking into a decorative feature for handmade garments. It begins with the essentials, covering what you need, how to choose and prepare fabric, and the core stitches used in English smocking.

From there, it sets out approaches to selecting colour combinations and walks through a design process using 10 smocking panels to recreate at home, showing how fabrics, patterns and colour can be blended for graphic effect. A final section considers where smocked panels can sit on garments, with six smaller fashion projects that add volume for dramatic impact. Suited to both learners and experienced stitchers, it also works as a studio reference or coffee-table read.

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