Flossie Teacakes provides a good tutorial for shirring here. Iām a big fan of shirring and use it for the back panel of a dresses instead of adding a zipper. Not that zippers a so hard or anything but shirring allows a little give that is more comfortable than a zipper.
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didn’t this have a different name when we were tiny? smocking? something like that?
yeah, smocking! i hated it when i was a kid as it was always itchy…
Thank you so much for featuring my tutorial on your lovely blog.
Florence x
thank you for sharing such good tutorials! you would laugh or maybe faint if you saw my last attempt at smocking. š