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Matty's avatar

Suddenly, I was six year old me clutching a blue corduroy doll dress and a needle threaded with sky blue cotton thread and sitting next to Mrs. Tucker as she showed me the ins and outs of smocking… I still have the doll’s dress tucked away with my original Barbie with case who wore the dress on our “matching days” — both of us wearing our blue on blue smocked dresses… it was the first time an adult shared needlework with me and I felt pretty self-important….and remarkably clever and creative….

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Emma Bradford's avatar

When I was aa small girl, my Granny made me dresses with a smocked band across the front. She used cream Vyella with little red spots for winter, or for summer red gingham. Both with the obligatory puffed sleeves! I still have one of the white ones that my mother saved hanging on display in our spare room.

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