Smocking and Heirloom Sewing Links

All links updated 6.12.2000
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".
dresses Aunccia's Homepage  with Free Pattern for a Preemie Bishop and Bonnet

Azalea Designs  Heirloom Sewing patterns for women.

Cherished Stitches Smocking Designs  Original designs for English Smocking, specializing in picture smocking.

Aussie SiteCountry 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.

C V Heirlooms Web Page  Comercial site that has a tips and tricks section.

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?

The Needlearts Collection of Ellen McCarn

Ellen Moore Johnson   Sign up for free membership in the Heirloom Embroidery Sewing Circle while you're exploring this wonderful site.

Grace L. Knott Smocking Supplies Ltd   Includes a free monthly smocking plate for your persnal use.

Kari Me Away  Designer of beautiful Heirloom sewing patterns. A great collection of embellishments too.

Laura Jenkins Thompson

Lydia's Heirloom Sewing Center  includes instructions for French Sewing by Machine Techniques

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.

Aussie SitePleaters International.  Home of the Amanda Smocking Pleater... this site includes multilingual instuctions for using the pleater and also has a handy hints section.

Sarah Howard Stone, Inc.  Author of wonderful books on French handsewing.

Smocking Arts Guild of America

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.

The Smocking Connection

WEBsmockers  SAGA's guild on the World Wide Web.

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