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Spaces are left between smocking rows for ease in reading the
diagram.
Actual smocking rows should touch.
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Instructions
This design requires six rows. Pleat eight rows. Use three strands of floss
unless otherwise indicated for smocking. Use two strands of floss to work
bullion stitches.
1. Find the center two pleats on Row 1. Using DMC blue (3841) floss, begin
with an up cable and cable across right side of panel. Turn upside down and
cable across to complete the left side.
2. Find center two pleats on Row 2. With blue floss, begin with a down cable
and cable across the right side of panel. Turn panel upside down and cable
across to complete the left side. Just below cabled Row 2, using lt. green
floss, work series of three cable stitches across panel, skipping two pleats
between each group. (See diagram for exact placement.) Using lt. pink, work
two bullion stitches wrapped four times each, centered just below each group
of green cable stitches.
3. Find center valley on Row 6. Begin with an up cable and cable six; *
trellis up two to Row 5 1/2; cable one; trellis two back down to Row 6; cable
three; trellis two back up to Row 5 1/2; cable one; trellis two back down to
Row 6; cable eleven. Repeat design from* across right side of panel. Turn
panel upside down and cable five; * trellis two down to Row 5 1/2; cable one;
trellis two back up to Row 6; cable three; trellis two down to Row
5 1/2; cable one; trellis two back up to Row 6; cable eleven. Repeat design from *
across to complete the left side.
4. Count eight pleats right from the center valley on Row 5 1/2. Begin with a down cable (just above up cable stitch
previously stitched) and cable one; trellis two up to Row 5; cable three;
trellis two back down to Row 5 1/2; cable one (just above up cable stitch
previously stitched). Repeat this design across entire panel, skipping
fourteen pleats between each design repeat.
5. Find center valley on Row 5 1/2. Begin with an up cable and cable six;
*trellis five up to Row 4 1/2; cable three; trellis five back down to Row
5 1/2; cable eleven. Repeat design from * across right side of the panel.
Turn panel upside down and cable five; * trellis five down to Row
4 1/2; cable three; trellis five back up to Row 5 1/2; cable eleven. Repeat this
design from * across to complete the left side.
6. Between Row 3 1/2 and 4, using two strands of 504 (lt. green) floss, work
outline stitches: six stitches up; six stitches across; six stitches down,
and then six stitches across. Repeat this design across panel to form the
vine. (To center the vine, find center two pleats on Row 3 1/2 and work three
outline stitches across and continue design repeat as directions given
above.) The thread always stays above or over the needle when stitching.
7. On Row 5 1/2, work bullion roses as shown on diagram. The center bullion
stitch is worked in 3713 (pink) floss wrapped ten times. The outer bullions
are worked in 819 (lt. pink) floss, wrapped eight times each. Using two
strands of 3817 (green) floss, work one lazy daisy stitch on each side of
the bullion rose as shown.
8. Using white floss, work four bullion stitches wrapped eleven times each
to form each flower along the vine. (See diagram for placement.) Using three
strands of 745 (yellow) floss, work one French knot wrapped one time to form
the center for each white flower. Using two strands of 3817 (green) floss,
work lazy daisy leaves along the vine as shown.
Backsmocking: Using two strands of floss, backsmock across Rows 3, 4, and 5.
Sleeve Smock Graph
Smocked Sleeves
For the smocked sleeve version, pleat three rows for each sleeve.
1. Find the center valley just above Row 2. Begin with an up cable and cable
across right side of sleeve. Turn upside down and cable across to complete
the left side. Find center valley just below Row 2 and begin with a down
cable and cable across right side of the sleeve. Then again, turn sleeve
upside down and complete the left side.
2. Find center valley above upper row of cable stitches on Row 2. Begin with
an up cable and cable three; trellis one down to just below bottom row of
cable stitches on Row 2; cable three; trellis one back up to just above
cabled Row 2; repeat design across. Turn panel and repeat same design to
complete left side of panel. Be sure not to pull floss too tight when
working trellis stitches; this creates a ladder-type stitch to weave ribbon
through. With 819 (lt. pink), work two bullion stitches (see step 7).
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