My craft to work with for the project was smocking which I was awarded randomly. We were required to make two pieces of typography using out craft. The model above is a fine example of how to wear a smock. Smocking is an embroidery technique used to gather fabric so that it can stretch. Before elastic, smocking was commonly used in cuffs, bodices, and necklines in garments where buttons were undesirable. Smocking developed in England and has been practiced since the Middle Ages and is unusual among embroidery methods in that it was often worn by laborers. Other major embroidery styles are purely decorative and represented status symbols. Smocking was practical for garments to be both form fitting and flexible, hence its name derives from smock — a farmer's work shirt. Smocking was used most extensively in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Inspired by two smocking books I got form the Chelsea library I got smocking . . .
Step one was to pleat a very long piece of calico fabric.
Then came the needle and thread.
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