Organizations
Smocking Arts Guild of America - Association of Fine Needle Artist. Smocking, Heirloom Sewing & Quilting, Embroidery, Silk Ribbon, Drawn Thread, Appliqué, Doll Dressing, and more.
Publications
Creative Needle - Publishes a beautiful bimonthly magazine.
Martha Pullen Company - Publishes Sew Beautiful magazine, carries lots of supplies, & much more. Shop here for adorable Gotz Dolls (the dolls photographed on Creative Keepsake's Classic Collection design plates.
Country Bumpkin - publishes Australian Smocking & Embroidery as well as other great needlework publications.
Shopping sites for smocking supplies
Most of these sites carry pleaters & offer the convenience of credit card shopping.
Garden Fairies Smocking
MiMi's Fabrications
Heirlooms Forever
Handmaids
Baltazor Fabrics & Lace
Smock-N-Sew
Elegant Stitches
The Stitching Post
Yesterday's Dreams
Sew Heavenly
Treasured Heirlooms
Kehler Klassics
Heirloom Sewing for Children
Miscellaneous Shopping, Etc.
Sew Teri-fic Designs - Sew Teri-fic Designs is a great site to browse for quality stock embroidery designs (free and for sale). In addition to being a source for quality custom digitizing by Teri Sullivan, this site offers free embroidery projects, free project ideas and inspirations, and free artwork for digitizers. Teri is the digitizer for Creative Keepsakes.
Constance Loewe Dolls - Beautiful, one of a kind porcelain dolls at this site
Julie Alexander - If your looking for a motivational speaker for your organization or some great books with suggestions on how to have a "Great Day" visit this site.
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