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    Tutorial: Multi-Coloured Smocking Plates in Illustrator

    Posted by on Feb 25 2011

    This is the second tutorial in my on-going series on how to create smocking plates in Illustrator. You’ll be creating a picture smocking plate with multiple colours, irregular shapes and learn how to create basic embroidered details and save them in the symbols library. It builds on the basic skills from the first two-part tutorial, […]

    A Fun Smocking Podcast

    Posted by on Feb 19 2011

    I love it! A smocking-related podcast? Well, knock me over with a feather! It appears that the craft is being dragged, millimeter by creaking millimeter, into the 21st century. Connie sounds like a hoot – she’s tackling my Illustrator tutorial right now – and the idea of a smocking podcast just strikes me as a […]

    Tutorial: Designing Smocking Plates in Illustrator Pt 2

    Posted by on Feb 18 2011

    This is part 2 of the first tutorial on how to design smocking plates in Adobe Illustrator. For the first half of this tutorial, including the Dropbox links to the tutorial’s files , a printer-friendly pdf of the complete instructions and step by step screen grabs for the first portion of the of the tutorial, click […]

    Tutorial: Designing Smocking Plates in Illustrator Pt 1

    Posted by on Feb 11 2011

    This tutorial is designed to allow smockers to create their own smocking graphs in Adobe Illustrator. It’s what I use to create the free vintage plates I offer here on my blog, like the one here and which I use to design many of my magazine projects, too. Pretty, no? Why Illustrator? Well, there is […]

    Felicia Continued

    Posted by on Feb 08 2011

    Look what arrived in the mail! Silk. Ribbon. Yumm. The buttons are stash.  They’re glass and while they look really dark here, they’re a darn near exact match for the fabric.  They’re just the right size, too so hurray for serendipity. When we last left our intrepid heroine, she was here: And here’s the progress […]