So I read about Chizimi shrinking thread in a craft magazine a while back and I was immediately fascinated.

You sew with it normally (top or bobbin thread or both) and when you expose it to heat with your iron, the thread shrinks, creating puckers in the fabric. You could go many crafty places with this stuff, seems to me. I started looking it up on the interwebs, wondering if $10 was too much to splurge on a gimmicky thread….

Soon, my search was totally derailed by vintage smocked pillow patterns. I have one of these! I treasure it. Never did I think I might be able to make my very own. Apparently it’s done with a technique called Canadian Smocking, different from English smocking. Feast your eyes….

I think my smocking adventures have just begun. Smocked blouse yokes? Smocked dresses? Smocked pillows, wallets, bags? Yes. Yes. Yes. So much craft, so little time.

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