Friday, July 16, 2010

Design "Flowers and buds"






In Canadian smocking “Bee cottage” design is very useful. Both right side and wrong side of the design are beautiful.
Using the wrong side of the design we can make varieties of designs. It is like our Indian “Rangoli" Once we master the technique we can create as many designs as we want. I will show you how to produce a beautiful flower pattern from the reverse of the pattern “Bee cottage”. I do not know it’s real name. I feel like naming it as” Flowers and buds”
Draw squares of the dimensions of your choice on the wrong side of the fabric.Mark X . as shown in the graph.These are the squares in which smocking is done
After smocking the square marked X disappears .Width and the length of the smocked piece is equal width of the square x total number of gaps.




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4 comments:

  1. hello vani nice works and great insperation.i am also intrested in all these but never workedout.now i will start doing all the sewing and everything .please guide me

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  2. YOU ARE AWESOME!.
    I'VE BEEN LOOKING YOUR PIECES OF WORK AND I'M AMAZED.
    A FEW MONTHS AGO I MADE 2 DRESSES FOR MY DAUGHTERS USIND THIS CANADIAN SMOCK.
    I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT.
    THANKS FOR HAVING THIS BLOG AND FOR LET ME SEE YOUR BEAUTIFUL WORKS.

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  3. I liked your work very much, it is very very beautiful. can anybody try this- with the help of graph
    let me and great work keep going

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  4. Vani,

    All your Canadian smocking tutorials are awesome.
    I saw the same type of smocking done on a girls frock for the body part.
    The cloth material had polka dots and the smocking was done in a way that the dots were seen when upfront upon gathering.
    Would you be able to share some ideas on these lines.

    Thanks for sharing,
    Suseela

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