Burda Style For people who sew

I really love how this smocked honeycomb texture adds elegance to any garment. You can use it just for decoration, but also to reduce width when you're making a waistband in a straight loose dress for example. I still plan to do that :-). The amount of fabric you need is twice the length your final piece needs to have.

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  Feb 27, 2012, 01.07 PMby Adriana Orozco

  I like it very much!!!!!!!!!!!!! thank you for tutorial!!!
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  Sep 19, 2011, 10.49 AMby silentgiver88

  thankx a lot!!!!
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  Jun 20, 2011, 02.34 AMby sertyan

  Hi Rensz

  Thank you for your tutorial! I applied it to make my daughter a smocked dress. You can see it here:

  http://www.burdastyle.com/projects/honeycomb-smocked-dress

  and I blogged about it here:

  http://sertyan.blogspot.com/2011/06/honeycomb-smocked-dress.html
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  Jun 14, 2011, 09.55 PMby pinapolee

  I love this! I tried it right away and it looks lovely.
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  Jun 1, 2011, 01.03 PMby woodviolet

  I cannot wait to try this! Smocking is so elegant; what a perfect touch.
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  May 14, 2011, 02.21 PMby sabrina

  You’ve done a really good job on that smocking. I tried smocking a while ago and it didn’t work out. Maybe next time it will be better. : )
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  Apr 22, 2011, 05.28 PMby aleah

  This looks great.
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  Apr 11, 2011, 04.13 PMby magdamagda

  wow so beautiful! gorgeous effect!
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  Apr 7, 2011, 09.13 PMby charlotteauzou

  I love it ! I’ve already tried it on a couple of project but it is so long to get this result ! Here is my dress using this technique : http://www.burdastyle.com/projects/yellow-smock-dress?image=122013
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  Apr 3, 2011, 02.12 PMby sianysiany

  Looks awesome… Can’t wait to try it!
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  Apr 2, 2011, 09.23 PMby ruthw

  It looks fabulous! Does it have any elasticity or would you have to do it with some kind of elastic thread to achieve that?

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    Apr 4, 2011, 09.41 AMby rensz

    Hi Ruth, No it doesn’t have any elasticity, unless you work with an elastic fabric such as a tricot or some other stretch material. I think it will be difficult to secure the pleats if you try it with elastic thread. Experiment if you want to know for sure, who knows what great unexpected results it will give!

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  Apr 1, 2011, 11.43 PMby clairesophie

  this looks amazing!!!!!!