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Smocking: The Basics
 A history of where smocking came from and how it started. |  Learn how to smock by making a Christmas Ornament or insert for a garment! This course will take you step by step through picking and prepping your fabric, all the basic smocking stitches, and finally constructing the ornament. |
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 video tutorial on how to add a smocked insert to a pattern. |  A video tutorial on the best needles to use for smocking. |
 A video tutorial on how to block a bishop neckline for smocking. |  Pleating a bishop seamlessly avoids lumps from the seams & broken pleater needles. |
 Pleater recommendations and video on how to pleat woven fabric. |  3 Situations when you might want to hand pleat and a tutorial showing how. |
 Step by step directions on how to read a smocking graph. |  An explanation of how to center your smocking design. |
 How to choose a fabric for your first smocking project. |  Recommended sewing patterns to use for your first smocked garment. |
 A step by step video tutorial on how to clean your pleater |  Tips for picking floss colors for smocking on prints |
 Adding side panels to a smocked insert. |  The History of Picture Smocking. |
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