Ask Anissa: Where Do I Find Free Smocking Tutorials?

I get a lot of searches for free smocking patterns, and although I am constantly on the look out for free tutorials, there just aren't many around. I searched for quite a while before I found the following four websites/blogs. Not all of these are complete tutorials, but they all have some really great information. I suggest taking a look at all of them, and even checking out some of the info that they have listed on your site as resources.

The first link is a great tutorial by a woman who really knows her stuff! The second one has some really good info too. The third one has some really good info for zippers. The fourth one is from a woman who spent a week reading tutorial after tutorial and has some really great pictures of smocking that I hadn't seen before.

Smocked dresses for lil mama's - Hope this helps someone out there to learn the joys of smocking! I hope I havent confused you farther LOL If you have questions feel free to email me at auroras_garden@insightbb.com.

Smocking - If you show your fingertips in a tutorial video of this caliber, you get the ridges of your nails polished down. With this product you can only produce smocking for a limited area, about 10 inches by 10 inches, so if you want to make …

Summer Top Week, Day IV - I did put a zipper in the back, since I'm no longer afraid of zippers thanks to this fabulous zipper tutorial, although once it was finished I discovered that I could just pull it over my head rendering the zipper useless. OH WELL. …

I Said I'd be Back… - I have been glued to the computer and had my head in books virtually all day and everyday… only leaving the house to walk the dog… but I have managed to work my way through the remaining assignments and I'm ready for my tutorial …

If you know of any online free smocking tutorials and would like to share them here, please do!