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Method of making Square cushions with Canadian smocking

Discussion in 'Embroidery' started by artvani, Feb 7, 2011.

  1. artvani

    artvani Platinum IL'ite

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    Canadian smocking is not as complicated as it appears. Precession is very important.
    Satin which is not too shiny is suitable for this. It can be done on any thick material. If it is done on thin materials embossed effect will not stay long.
    Follow the following steps and do the cushions of your choice.
    Measure the size of the cushion.
    Decide the size of the squares in the graph.
    Select the design
    Calculate the material needed.
    Press the material so that there no wrinkles
    Check whether the adjacent sides are perpendicular to one another .If they are not correct them.
    Fix the cloth on a table with sticky tapes all around so that wrong side is on the top. Draw graph of squares of your choice. Do not forget to leave borders all around.
    I bought 45 cm long and 4 cm wide plastic scales and got them cut along the length into 2 cm, 3 cm wide pieces .I feel 2 cm x 2 cm graph gives good finish.
    Zigzag the edges or else the thread coming out of the edges hinders our work.
    Smock the design column by column
    There will be pleats all around the design. Arrange the pleats in an order according to the design. Check the size of the smocked piece tack the pleats in place. This takes little time. Later on these stitches can be removed. The lines in the graph help us while making pleats. I prefer giving lining to the smocked material. This is front side of the cushion cover. Using matching cloth for the back stitch the cushion cover.
     

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    Lencymol Gold IL'ite

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    Thank you for detaily describing how to make cushion beautifuly.
     
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    rajivenugopal Platinum IL'ite

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    thank u so much:bowdown
    raji.
     
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    Thanks U R kind to give instuction for ur.
    One again thanks.
    Lakshmi.V
     
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    swathi14 IL Hall of Fame

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    Vani

    clean and clear explanationwith suitable SBS .

    thanks for taking so much effort.


    andal
     
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    L69 Gold IL'ite

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    thank u so much Vani for that detailed tutorial
     
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    thank you madam!
     
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    sritas Staff Member IL Hall of Fame

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    Thank you very much, Vani for the prefect explanation and precise way to mark and craft this beautiful canadian cushion.
    Shanta
     
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    outofthebox Platinum IL'ite

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    hi Vani ma'am....from your posts only i have come to know the term smocking...have you written any tutorial to explain how to do smocking for beginners ? in this article you have mentioned to do smocking, but i do not know how to do ....first i want to try it on some sample cloth of basic size....for that if you have tutorial or you know of any good website that will explain step by step using visuals i will be very glad to try it out ...!i hope you get this msg because i think this post was made long back...........
     
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