Neck Designs

Here are some of hand embroidery neck designs for Kurtis  or Salwar suits. Click on the image for larger view. Hope you may find them useful.

 

Door Hanging or Toran

Dear friends, I wish that Diwali fill your home with happiness, prosperity and good health.

Diwali, being the biggest festival in our country we all decorate our homes as beautiful as possible. You will put your creative efforts on Rangoli, Diya, lighting and so on. In the market also a variety of ethnic and artistic home décor items are available.

One such item is a door hanging or Toran. I saw it in the market and I felt very attractive. So we have tried to make one with hand embroidery. But we didn’t have any such design with us. With some auspicious motifs like kalash, I draw this design.   We choose a yellow colour, which looks auspicious for Torans. The fabric used is of cotton. The main stitch used is Herringbone stitch. Outline stitch or stem stitch used in between. Mirrors are fixed with readymade rings and you can observe small bells were stitched below to enhance the look.

Feeling happy for decorating the door with homemade Toran.

Wish you again “Shubh Deepawali”

 

Hand Embroidered Saree

Dear readers hope all of you are enjoying Diwali  shopping.  Sarees, jewelry and the list goes on. To match your mood presenting one more hand embroidered saree.

This blue georgette saree on which double shaded silk thread.  In my last post, I posted saree with matching embroidery. This time the work on saree is done with contrast colours. We tried many clour combinations as always J. Finally, we got this double shaded thread i.e. yellow and orange. 

You can see the whole pallu is embroidered and  decorated with kundans.
Now let us see the stitches, in this embroidery pattern the main stitches used are herringbone stitch and chain stitch.

 Herringbone is one of my favourite stitches. because it is not only used beautifully to fill petals leaves but also very simple stitch. Whenever you want to finish your embroidery filling, use herringbone stitch. This stitch is also known as Russian cross stitch. I am planning to post tutorial kind of articles about some of hand embroidery stitches. Let us see how it works.

 

Lazy Daisy Work On Saree

 Embroidery always enhances the beauty of the saree.  Today I am feeling glad to present hand embroidered work done by my mom. We selected pink Georgette saree for the work. we get it printed from some professional artist from our city. The design selected is suitable for lazy daisy stitch. Lazy daisy stitch which is also known as detached chain stitch is very easy and it gives a petal-like look. This was Amma’s first saree project so she wanted an easy stitch

You may see on pink Georgette saree, darker shade of pink silk thread is used. In the beginning, we decided to go for a contrast colour combination, so tried blue and cream colour. But it didn’t go well with the pink background. After trial and error, a darker shade of pink is selected, and Kundans are used to enhance its beauty. The above image is of the border and below you can see Pallu.

 

Beautiful Peacock Design Embroidery

Hi all

How are you doing? In my last post, I have presented a large patchwork. This time also I am presenting a large hand embroidery project. This is purely hand embroidery , no patch work. Even though simple and easy stitches are used, this peacock design demands lot of patience. But after completing the work will be just “wow” !!

This is an old piece of art bu my all-time favourite. The whole project is done by Amma only. Pure cotton cloth and silk thread are used. 

Details of the work are:

• Herringbone stitch is used for lotus. Stem stitch for the outline.
• The stitches are chain stitch, round buttonhole, Chain stitch.
• Long and short and for all the feathers.
• All other fillings are done with stem stitch
• You may observe Panchrangi or multicolored thread in feathers. This thread you get easily at the market

You may try your own version or colour combination.

On completion, it will look marvelous!!