Smocking

I have purchased smocked dresses before and I just adore them!  But not the $60 price tag!  I had been wanting to learn to smock for a long time and I finally got the nerve to try it!

It was a little bit harder than I thought and now looking back I can understand the $60 price tag for a hand smocked item (if not more!)  But the fact that machines are pumping out hundreds of smocked dress/shirts in a few hours makes me love my little piece of "almost" perfect smocked piece I was able to make myself ;)