The Priscilla smocking book, a collection of beautiful and useful patterns, with directions for working . asy to doand fascinat-ing to a de-gree. This gar-ment has ayoke to whicht h e Smockedfronts are at-tached. Theback is in onepiece withsmocking midway between the shoulders to match that on thefronts. The illustration shows an effective combina-tion of the different colors. We read of smocks and smocking in Queen .Junestime and earlier, and a description of garmentssmocked in golden threads and in silver on silk andsatin has an attractive sound. With each revival ofa mode progress is made,
The Priscilla smocking book, a collection of beautiful and useful patterns, with directions for working . asy to doand fascinat-ing to a de-gree. This gar-ment has ayoke to whicht h e Smockedfronts are at-tached. Theback is in onepiece withsmocking midway between the shoulders to match that on thefronts. The illustration shows an effective combina-tion of the different colors. We read of smocks and smocking in Queen .Junestime and earlier, and a description of garmentssmocked in golden threads and in silver on silk andsatin has an attractive sound. With each revival ofa mode progress is made, and in embroidered smock-ing this era has made an important advance. Be-sides, embroidered smocking is purely .\merican, andnow one can smock anything and in any grade, asfine as possible or the reverse. Figure 53. Sports Smock.—This sports smockwas developed in blue crepe cloth with crepe for col-lar, cuffs, and belt. A row of outlining in heavy silkand double over-and^over stitch is the decoration onthe collar, cuffs, and belt. Buttons with embroideryare seen tm the fronts and on the belt. The 25. 50. Spokts Smock of Coral Pink Emukuiukkko in Siiai>i;s of PinkBlack, and White. See page 24 .smocking is done in wliite, (See Fig. 54.) Figure 54.—This illustration shows the detail ofthe smocking stitches used on Fig. 53. Twenty-onerows were stitched on the sewing-machine for linesand spaces. Seven stitclies to the inch were the usual preparation, smocking stitcheswere worked as follows ; First row, single outline:second row, two douhle cahle and one full diamondacross the line; third row, single outline. Three rowsof wave, using three stitches up and three stitchesdown follow, and then on the eighth line we workcable stitch across five times, forming the band. Aband in feathered diamond, of six rows or five fulldiamonds, comes next, followed by a band of cable,as in the beginning of the pattern; single cable and diamond and single outline fi
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