I want to add smocking to the ice cream dress following the tutorial by Ana Sofia on the Oliver & S Blog.
It adds honeycomb smocking.
16 dots are marked 1/2" apart.
Since the smocking pulls the fabric together at the dots, wouldn't this result in needing an extra 4" of fabric?
But the tutorial only says to add 1" at the fold.
Can anyone explain it to me, as I'm a smocking novice.
Also, would it be better to do the smocking first, and then cut the pattern out of the smocked fabric?
How would I do that?
Thanks!