[Dolls] Country Girls

I love white socks and Mary Jane's :-) 

The floral print fabric worked out very nicely with the smocked design.

I discovered the smocking decorative stitches on the sewing machine (Brother CS6000i) and had to try it out. I ran about 5 or 6 rows of straight stitches across, gathered the fabric together, and then ran the decorative stitch on the gathers. The pleats are not as intricate and detailed as hand-stitched smocking, as you can see from the picture below: 

However, the uneven and scrunched smocking is cute in itself and works well with the yellow dresses. Maybe I'll give hand-smocking another try some time later.