I thought I would show you my first smocking project.
I took a smocking class when Mason was 3, I was not yet pregnant with #2. Even though Mason was just about too old for smocked clothing, I had high hopes for a second child--never dreaming it would be a girl.
For my class project, I began smocking an insert. I used the unisex ecru thread. This was in the spring, and I didn't complete my project until I became pregnant later that summer. Even then, the insert didn't get completed until after Sadie was born the following spring. (In my defense, she was 3 weeks early) I did find out very early on that she was a girl, and added just the palest pink 6 cable flowers to the pattern. It is by Ellen McCarn.
Unfortunately, the baby bubble it went into was way beyond my sewing skills, so my mother-in-law had it sewn for us. That bubble pattern is STILL beyond my skill-level, but I'm getting closer!!
It was completed shortly after Sadie was born last year, and she wore it for her 3 month portrait.
And of course, she wore her Handsmocked/sewn by Mommy Birthday Dress. She was the perfect little hostess and charmed all of her party guests, as she has charmed us every day of the last year. What a Little Blessing! 
