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December 22, 2011 9:25 am

Step 7 - Assembly

  • Remove the pleating threads
  • Finish the raw edges either by serging or by simply zig-zaging each raw edge
  • Bring the right sides of the finished short ends together and stitch using about a 2.0 length, then turn right side out
  • Insert your hanger “hook” through the finished hole and pull the fabric gently, but firmly down over the padded hanger.  You may have to stretch it a bit to fit - this is normal
  • Using regular hand sewing thread close the bottom opening from underneath by taking a small stitches behind the lowest smocked row and travel from side to side.  Take care and make sure your stitches do not show on the top.  Draw up snuggly, but do not distort your smocking when doing so

NOTE:     If you would like to make a child’s sized smocked hanger simply cut 8 inches off of a standard wooden hanger [4” off each side”].  Pad the hanger by wrapping strips of polyester batting around the shortened hanger - be sure to cover the “cut ends” as well - you may need to take a stitch or two to keep it in place, but for the most part the batting sticks to itself.  Shorten the starting width of the fabric from 45” wide to 35” wide, as you won’t need as many smocked repeats.  Follow the rest of the steps in the tutorial to finish the child’s sized hanger.

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