That’s very kind of you! Thanks for stopping in, and I hope you found the post useful!

Hi Gillian! I’m five year late to the party but while reading the comments, I saw this person’s extremely rude comment and I just thought I didn’t cost me anything to write a word here to tell you that I can’t believe somebody would be this rude to a person like yourself who is volunteering precious info and photos for free on the internet. I hope it didn’t affect you — you don’t owe any of us anything! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience. Peace :D

Your folds would be a lot narrower, so it might be harder to get the points nice and crisp. I’d definitely recommend trying it with a paper template first, and if that works okay try it at a large scale with a fabric that takes creases really well. I haven’t played with this technique for a couple years now, so I can’t remember if there are other pitfalls you might run into. If it doesn’t work maybe the arrow smocking patttern would do the trick for you?

I agree. But I’m using a different technique, now so I dont really need this anymore. No matter how many times I followed these instructions, I still came out with smocking that looked nothing like your picture. Meg Try arrow smocking and flatten them out with a hot iron to make a scale effect, that is what I did when I got too frustrated with this method.

You are being rude, Emily! These instructions are very clear! Just DO it….you’ll se it works!

Thank you.