Perfecting Picture Smocking: The Secrets to Successful Stacking

Learn how to create picture smocking to enhance adorable classic garments for your loved ones and embellish other items in Laura Jenkins Thompson’s popular book, Perfecting Picture Smocking. Through concise instructions and over 140 detailed illustrations, Laura shows you step-by-step, from start to finish, how to form smocked figures using stacked cables. Besides sharing her “Secrets to Successful Stacking” Laura gives invaluable tips on color, fabrics, patterns, pleating, and construction. Laura’s easy methods have long enchanted students from coast to coast. Now you, too, can share in the pleasures given by this delightful form of needlework.