Our Engineer guest makes smocking easy and fun, showing how in modern times we can make an age-old skill, contemporary. Fit 2 Stitch is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available ...

Smocking is an embroidery technique that was developed in England. It is used for gathering a fabric in such a way that it is able to stretch. In fact, before the invention of elastic, smocking was ...

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At long last, warm weather has arrived, and while you might have rued bundling up during the cold days of winter, the sweltering summer heat can be rather trick to dress for, too. When in doubt, a ...

There were generations of girls who grew up wearing frocks with smocking on them. The little dresses were gathered at the chest with the rest flowing loosely. Then as more fancy attires made their way ...

When Hannah Camilleri felt contractions four months too early, attempts to stop her son Zayden arriving prematurely failed. Zayden was hardly bigger than his mum's arm when he was born at 23 weeks' ...