Smocking!

A friend from a chat board that I belong to is selling all her smocking things - pleater, patterns, plates, thread, etc...

And after talking with my husband - I am going to buy it from her!

I love smocking.  I taught myself 2 years with my daughter's dress.  But to have it pleated, I had to send it to a friend in San Diego, who owns a pleater! 

I haven't done any more smocking because I don't like to impose like that - again.

So, soon, I will have my own pleater!  I have a dress, a nightgown for me, and a blouse for me and daughter already planned in my head!