Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Smocking
Friday, September 24, 2010
Puasnya hati...
Dah lama sangat saya tak masukkan n3 dengan cerita-cerita aktiviti menjahit saya ni so hari ni saya mulakan n3 baru dengan gambar-gambar hasil smocking terbaru saya ni . Saya tak ke mana cuma saya memang nak berehat panjang dalam sebulan dari aktiviti menjahit sulaman smocking ni sebab banyak perkara lain yang saya nak buat lagi pun seminggu sebelum Ramadhan saya dah selesaikan semua order smocking dress dari customer yang terdiri kawan-kawan saya saja .
Ok berbalik kepada aktiviti jahtan smocking saya yang terbaru ni saya tengah siapkan smocking dress untuk kanak-kanak umur 2-3 tahun . Smocking ni baru je saya siap hari Rabu yang lepas dan sekarang ni saya tengah nak jahit bagi siap menjadi gaun yang comel gitu .
Teknik smocking yang saya guna kali ni simple saja dan saya gabungkan 1 warna primer iaitu merah dan digandingkan dengan warna sekunder iaitu hijau . Kontra pada 2 warna ni memang dapat menonjolkan kehalusan sulaman smocking yang saya jahit ni . Pemilihan warna pun sangat penting supaya sulaman smocking yang kita jahit tu lebih bold atau menonjol dari corak serta warna kain . Kalau guna kain plain memang kita ada lebih banyak pilihan warna tapi kalau guna kain yang bercorak dengan warna yang pelbagai kita kena la pandai memilih warna benang supaya corak sulaman yang kita jahit tu tak tenggelam dalam kemeriahan corak kain yang pelbagai tu..

Saya pun tahu dari mana pengunjung-pengunjung baru yang suka singgah blog saya ni datang :) Dalam waktu bekerja pun anda semua boleh surf internet bestnya tapi jangan la leka sangat depan computer tu dan sampai kerja hakiki anda semua tu jadi lambat siap susah la macam tu tapi saya pasti anda semua mesti pekerja yang bijak membahagikan masa untuk mengadap computer surf tenet dan time untuk buat kerja office kan...Terima kasih banyak-banyak la sebab anda semua menjadi pengunjung setia blog saya yang sempoi ni . Singgah la selalu ya sekurang-kurangnya ranting Nuffnang saya makin naik hehehehe sukanya saya.....toce...toce...
Ok la sampai sini dulu n3 saya di petang Jumaat ni dan selamat berhujung minggu dan selamat jalan-jalan gi open house aidilfitri . Saya pun dah mengatur jadual nak berhari raya ke rumah kawan-kawan dan sedara mara ni...bye...
Thursday, April 29, 2010
SMOCKING
Saya banyak juga mencari info tentang sejarah sulaman smocking saja baca untuk tambah ilmu dan kali ini info yang saya dapat ni saya masukkan dalam blog . Boleh juga saya simpan sebagai rujukan . Info ini saya dapat dari wikipedia .Sekarang ni senang sangat nak dapat apa saja info yang kita cari bestkan...
SMOCKING
Smocking is an embroidery technique used to gather fabric so that it can stretch. Before elastic, smocking was commonly used in cuffs, bodices, and necklines in garments where buttons were undesirable. Smocking developed in England and has been practiced since the Middle Ages and is unusual among embroidery methods in that it was often worn by laborers. Other major embroidery styles are purely decorative and represented status symbols. Smocking was practical for garments to be both form fitting and flexible, hence its name derives from smock — a farmer's work shirt.[1]Smocking was used most extensively in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.[2]
Materials
Fabric can be gathered into pleats in a variety of ways.
Early smocking, or gauging, was done by hand. Some embroiderers also made their own guides using cardboard and an embroidery marking pencil.[2] By 1880, iron-on transfer dots were available and advertised in magazines such as Weldon's. The iron on transfers places evenly spaced dots onto the wrong side of the fabric, which were then pleated using a regular running stitch.
Since the early 1950s, pleating machines have been available to home smockers. Using gears and specialty pleater needles, the fabric is forced through the gears and onto the threaded needles. Pleating machines are typically offered in 16-row, 24-row and 32-row widths. Manufacturers include Read and Amanda Jane.
[edit]Variations
Typically, variations are done as an art form on clothing or on fabric which is mounted in picture frames for hanging on the wall.
- English smocking is a historic technique of sewing the embroidery over pleats already sewn into the fabric.
- North American smocking is an alternate technique in which the pleats are gathered and formed in the fabric by the smocking stitch-work itself.
- Lattice smocking involves stitching from the back side of the fabric, creating unique effects in the pleats and appearance, and is particularly good for heavier fabrics like velvet.
[edit]Method
Smocking refers to work done before a garment is assembled. It usually involves reducing the dimensions of a piece of fabric to one-third of its original width, although changes are sometimes lesser with thick fabrics. Individual smocking stitches also vary considerably in tightness, so embroiderers usually work a sampler for practice and reference when they begin to learn smocking.[2]
Traditional hand smocking begins with marking smocking dots in a grid pattern on the wrong side of the fabric and gathering it with temporary running stitches. These stitches are anchored on each end in a manner that facilitates later removal and are analogous to basting stitches. Then a row of cable stitching stabilizes the top and bottom of the working area.[5]
Smocking may be done in many sophisticated patterns.[6] Standard hand smocking stitches are:
A. Cable stitch: a tight stitch of double rows that joins alternating columns of gathers.[7]
B. Stem stitch: a tight stitch with minimum flexibility that joins two columns of gathers at a time in single overlapping rows with a downward slope.[8]
C. Outline stitch: similar to the stem stitch but with an upward slope.[8]
D. Cable flowerette: a set of gathers worked in three rows of stitches across four columns of gathers. Often organized in diagonally arranged sets of flowerettes for loose smocking.[9]
E. Wave stitch: a medium density pattern that alternately employs tight horizontal stitches and loose diagonal stitches.[10]
F. Honeycomb stitch: a medium density variant on the cable stitch that double stitches each set of gathers and provides more spacing between them, with an intervening diagonal stitch concealed on the reverse side of the fabric.[11]
G. Surface honeycomb stitch: a tight variant on the honeycomb stitch and the wave stitch with the diagonal stitch visible, but spanning only one gather instead of a gather and a space.[12]
H. Trellis stitch: a medium density pattern that uses stem stitches and outine stitches to form diamond-shaped patterns.[12]
I. Vandyke stitch: a tight variant on the surface honeycomb stitch that wraps diagonal stitches in the opposite direction.[13]
J. Bullion stitch: a complex knotted stitch that joins several gathers in a single stitch. Organized similarly to cable flowerettes.[13]
- Smocker's knot: (not depicted) a simple knotted stitch used to finish work with a thread or for decorative purposes.[9]

Tuesday, March 30, 2010
SWEET STRAWBERRY SMOCKING..
Thursday, January 14, 2010
SMOCKING BERSILANG
TEKNIK JAHITAN SMOCKING BERSILANG
happy smocking
Monday, January 4, 2010
SMOCKING SEMULA...
Salam pagi Isnin
Smocking yang sedang saya jahit sekarang ni...
Friday, September 18, 2009
Dress smocking untuk Kayla
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Proses pleat kain
Buat pleat smocking
Thursday, August 27, 2009
SMOCKING HIJAU BIRU
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
SMOCKING BIRU
Monday, August 17, 2009
SMOCKING WARNA BIRU
Pagi ni saya mula jahit smocking yang baru pula , lepas saya dah siapkan smocking warna merah yang lama sangat tertangguh tu , pagi ni terus saya jahit smocking warna biru ni pula . Kainnya bercorak bunga halus-halus warna biru sweet sangat , saya guna benang color electric blue kira matching dan sesuai , benang mesti color yang lebih terang/gelap /sriking atau kontras dari warna corak kain baru la smocking yang kita jahit lebih menonjol ..
Lepas tu bila dah mula cekap teknik asas baru la kita boleh belajar cara jahitan bullion dan macam-macam teknik yang lebih susah . Bila dah mahir jahit sulaman smocking ni kita sendiri boleh cipta reka corak atau pattern smocking dengan hanya menggunakan kombinasi teknik cable stitch dan beberapa teknik jahitan smocking lain dan buku hanya menjadi bahan rujukan sahaja...
Minat yang mendalam dan kesabaran sangat penting kalau nak belajar smocking ni kalau tak memang kita tak akan dapat rasa keseronokan menjahit smocking ni sebab nak siap sulaman smocking ni memang ambil masa yang agak lama .
SMOCKING DAH SIAP..
Saturday, August 1, 2009
SMOCKING MERAH LAGI
Thursday, July 30, 2009
SMOCKING MERAH KU
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
DRESS SMOCKING LAMA















