Smocked Dress + Shirt Pattern Download
With just a few well-placed stitches, hand smocking is totally easy and totally classic! Purl Soho's Smocked Dress + Shirt is the perfect place to try your hand at the adorable puckers and pleats of honeycomb smocking. Our full-color, step-by-step Pattern is for both a Smocked Dress (sizes 12 months to 6 years) and a Smocked Shirt (sizes 12 months to 10 years). Available as a PDF download, for a list of materials you'll need to make your Smocked garment, please click Product Details, above
Materials
To make Purl Soho's Smocked Dress or Shirt you'll need...
- 1 1/2 yards of lightweight cotton fabric. (We used Kiyohara's Large Gingham, which is no longer available but suggest any lightweight cotton will work with the pattern. To create your own grid on solid fabric, consider using a fabric marker and ruler for assistance!)
- 1 skein of embroidery floss
- An embroidery needle
- A spool of cotton sewing thread
Sizes
Smocked Dress
12 months to 6 years
Smocked Shirt
12 months to 10 years
