Scout & Indiana

When I started this challenge, I thought the new thing I was learning was smocking. And technically, it was. But looking at the finished dress, I think I learned much more about the process of learning a new technique.

There is a temptation when you're trying something for the first time to follow all of the rules—to make the technique look the way it is "supposed" to look so that you've somehow proven you learned it correctly.

But that's not really how I want to make things.