I like to use Pearl cotton thread for smocking as it has a pleasant sheen to it and the 2 ply thread is thick more than enough to get noticed.I've 1 question/confusion.Afriend advised me to collect pleats tighter as to help make the width to get embroidered fewer significant than necessary to enable for loosening following pulling out the accumulat

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