Monday, June 18, 2012

TAST WEEK 24 BUTTONHOLE WHEEL
My sample on this stitch 




 You can see this stitch details here

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

BANJARA EMBROIDERY


I have started a new project.





It is a Banjara embroidery. There are around 30 to 40 stitches in this type of embroidery. But Most of the stitches are surface embroidery stitches with a different name.For instance:
1.Vele - Chain stitch
2.Maalikanth - Herringbone stitch
3.Bakhiya -Back stitch


It originated from AndraPradesh and is used by Lambadis or Tribals. They use mirrors,shells,beads etc., They use the primary colours like red ,blue ,yellow etc, You can see the full details of this embroidery here.


I have taken this project from Needle and Thread magazine. After a lot of confusion with respect to type of cloth and color of thread I have zeroed in this blue color crepe silk saree which is a light weight saree. I have used pearl cotton thread. The design is border design. 
Will post the completed  one very soon.


  

Monday, June 11, 2012

TAST - 23 CHALLENGE WEEK


After announcement of week 23 challange for using 8 stitches together in a project, I was so thrilled and finnaly my project is completed. 






I have used the following stitches:


1.Chain Stitch
2.Stem Stitch
3.French Knot
4.Back stitch
5.Feather stitch
6.Fly Stitch
7.Satin stitch
8.Button hole stitch
9.Straight stitch

10.Herring bone stitch


For details refer here

Friday, June 8, 2012


My miniature sewing samples


When I learned Tailoring , I had to stitch the dress in a miniature form. These were given as assignments for me.
Most of them are stitched by hand.
This work dates back to 1990.
In order to preserve this I have filed them.  






























Monday, June 4, 2012

TAST Week 21 and 22


Week21-Butterfly Chain stitch
Week 22-Knotted cretan stitch
My experiments in these two stitches,





The stitch details are here.

Saturday, June 2, 2012

My First Doily


This is my first doily started long back.




I used crochet cotton varigated thread  and the design has ruffles in it. I didnt blocked because I dont know the correct procedure.For crochet I normally use wool,first time I used light weight thread,can you tell me the tension of the doily is correct?