Vicksburg’s Magnolia Stitchers are featured in the current edition of Sew Beautiful magazine.

In photos shot a year ago in holiday-decorated rooms at Anchuca Mansion, toddlers and children model Victorian-era holiday dresses made by the Stitchers, a chapter of the Smocking Arts Guild of America.

Featured fashions include velveteen, silk and cotton batiste dresses with smocking, monograms and shadowwork embroidery, detachable collars, lace edging and other embellishments.

The Magnolia Stitchers, a group of about 30 women from Warren County and Madison Parish, meet once a month at the Sewing Boutique on South Frontage Road.

Meetings feature a how-to program or a new technique and a meal or refreshments.

Along with sewing for their own children, grandchildren, nephews and nieces, members embrace a service project, creating delicate hand-smocked “Wee Care” burial gowns and hats for premature babies who don’t survive.

Heirloom-quality Easter outfits made by the group were modeled by boys and girls and photographed in May on the grounds of the Old Court House Museum for Sew Beautiful’s March 2011 issue.

Also, the Sewing Boutique, owned by Linda Patterson, will be featured in another upcoming issue, and the magazine’s editors and photographers will be back in Vicksburg in May for a shoot featuring summer play clothes.

Sew Beautiful, published six times a year, sells for $6.