January: Push - Sapphire Girl Bomb - Janice Earlbaum Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief - Rick Riordan Percy Jackson: The Sea of Monsters - Rick Riordan Percy Jackson: The Titan's Curse - Rick Riordan Percy Jackson: The Battle of the Labyrinth - Rick Riordan Percy Jackson: The Last Olympian - Rick Riordan
February: A Year of Living Biblically - A.J. Jackson Perfume: The Story of a Murderer - Patrick Süskind
March: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See White Teeth - Zadie Smith On Beauty - Zadie Smith Perfect Fifths - Megan McCafferty The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larson
April: The Girl Who Played With Fire - Stieg Larson World World Z - Max Brooks Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters - Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters
May: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - Stieg Larson It's the Little Things: Everyday Interactions that Annoy, Anger, and Divide the Races - Lena Williams
June: Gang Leader for a Day - Sudhir Venkatesh Women, Race and Class - Angela Y. Davis Post-Black - Ytesha Womack Columbine - Dave Cullen
July: A Million Little Pieces - James Frey Little Bee - Chris Cleave
Abandoned: The Bro Code - Barney Stinson The Secret - Rhonda Bryne
I was going to a DJ exhibition that was happening tonight BUT it was canceled so instead I made a quick and dirty smocking tutorial for aznenchantress.
What is smocking? It's a method of gathering fabric that provides stretch to an area. Dressmakers used it before the invention of elastic for areas such as necklines and cuffs. Why quick and dirty? There are two main types of smocking, English and North American. English smocking involves gathering pleated fabric. And pleating fabric takes time...and I'm lazy. North American smocking does not involve pleats.
With English and North American there are many different pattern types available. In this tutorial I'll be introducing the Lattice Pattern because it's pretty.