AVOID These Smocking MISTAKES!

Video I mentioned:    • Learn Smocking!  Pleatwork Embroidery for ...   I have made many mistakes while smocking (aka pleatwork embroidery) and I repeated 7 of those while working on a new honeycomb smocking project. I am sharing them with you, so that you don’t have to experience the same frustrations. 0:00 Intro 1:08 Mistake 1: Leaving Seam Allowances in Gathering Threads 1:49 Mistake 2: Not Properly Tying Gathering Threads 2:51 Mistake 3: Not Embroidering on the Correct Side 3:32 Mistake 4: Not Controlling Your Gathering Thread 4:37 Mistake 5: Not Using the Proper Length of Thread 5:06 Bonus! How to change thread in the middle of a row 5:54 Mistake 6: Not Avoiding Gathering threads with Embroidery Stitches 6:38 MIstake 7: Not Planning Ahead Like us on Facebook   / thimbleandplume   Follow us on Instagram @ThimbleandPlume Join our German Renaissance sew-along group;   / about   Check out the patterns we have available on our Etsy Shop. https://www.etsy.com/shop/ThimbleAndP... Music from Epidemic Sound