smocking in a sentence

Examples

1. A velvet jacket was stiched in the same smocking one can find on a little girl's party dress.
2. "' Smocking "'is an embroidery technique used to gather fabric so that it can stretch.
3. Before elastic, smocking was commonly used in cuffs, bodices, and necklines in garments where buttons were undesirable.
4. Galliano transformed the idea of puff vests into smart little quilted wools with smocking down the torso and ending in peplums.
5. Beyond the smocking, she was a tomboy who collected spiders and preferred G . I . Joe to Raggedy Ann.
6. Almost every garment is embellished with hand embroidery, hand smocking, hand fagoting, feather stitching or hand shadow embroidery.
7. She was accustomed to tailoring pieces that stood out by decorating the fabrics she used with such embellishments as embroidery, appliques and smocking.
8. A short black viscose super-mini _ it might have doubled as a tunic _ was given a band of smocking around the hem.
9. Individual smocking stitches also vary considerably in tightness, so embroiderers usually work a sampler for practice and reference when they begin to learn smocking.
10. Individual smocking stitches also vary considerably in tightness, so embroiderers usually work a sampler for practice and reference when they begin to learn smocking.