The dresses featured on this page are adaptions of Cherry Williams Basic Bishops and Square Yoke patterns. The pink heirloom sewn dress featured on my More About Me page was adapted from Martha Pullen's Heirloom Party Dress pattern from her book "French Hand Sewing By Machine".
Country Bumpkin Home of Inspirations and Australian Smocking and Embroidery magazines. Find out about the up and coming "Beating Around the Bush" convention planned for September 2000.
Garden Fairies Beth-Katherine's site is another Commercial site that is well worth the visit. While you are there why not subscribe to her smocking newsletter and meet other prople who share your love of smocking and heirloom sewing?
Martha Pullen Company Heirloom Sewing, Sew Beautiful Magazine and Martha's Sewing Room
Needlearts Network The Needlearts Bulletin Board, a Pattern Library with exclusive designs and projects for you to try, and much more.
Primrose Lane Beautiful Heirloom clothes for your dolls and a chance to win a free pattern every month.
Pleaters International. Home of the Amanda Smocking Pleater... this site includes multilingual instuctions for using the pleater and also has a handy hints section.
First Stitch Smocking Software for your PC! SmockSoft for creating custom smocking plates for any occasion and Perpetual Paper for Smocking for generating smocking graph paper.
The NeedleArts Mall Looking for a needlework shop? You'll find a great variety of shops here that cater for just about every form of needlework. There are also needlework lessons, in-depth instructional articles and lots more.