If you love vintage looks, then you should love smocking.  While really popular on children's garments, embroidered smocking can be quite time consuming and take a lot more fabric than you imagine.  The good news is that you can get a similar effect on your sewing machine.  While this technique is not true smocking, which is a series of tiny pleats, this can still look quite cool and be added as a panel to your projects.  It's also a fun way to use a lot of the decorative stitches that your sewing machine offers.  Watch this tutorial to learn how to do machine smocking for your project.