Machine Embroidery Patchwork

Dear readers,

         I am extremely sorry for not updating my blog.  Last two to three months I had a really good time with my parents and enjoyed the festival season. After  1^st blogiversary, I became too lazy to write anything :)

  

      Okay, apart from excuses; here is a beautiful machine embroidered portrait of - a lady bringing flowers for pooja.
 This patchwork or applique wall hanging is done by my dearest Amma.  I wish you all like this piece of art.

She used vibrant colours for the pattern. Ready made flowers are also used (flowers in the bowl)

    This portrait reminds me “rajasthani lady” pattern of wall hanging which I have posted on the blog before. 

     All right friends; Hope next time I will be back soon with my new blog post :)

Bye

 

My Second Blog Award

Hello friends,

       I have received my second award for my blog – “Liebster Award” from Leela Govind. Thanks a lot

 Leela ma’am for such a lovely honour and motivation. She is having a wonderful blog “Leelashobbies”  where you can experience her creative work. 

 

I am very happy to share this award with following awesome bloggers

Ranjana : http://ranjana-craft-blog.blogspot.in

Laxmi :  http://sadalas.blogspot.com

Latha : http://latha-mycreations.blogspot.in/

Mahalaxmi : http://mahagowri.blogspot.in/

http://ahomemakersutopia.blogspot.in/

My dear blog mates it will be my pleasure if you accept this Liebster award.

Trial - Chicken Scratch Embroidery

Hi friends, how are you?

      A few days back going through embroidery blogs I have come across an awesome blog “Sarah's hand embroidery tutorials”, where I found lessons of chicken scratch embroidery, which can be done on checkered cloth only. Really I found it interesting, so tried chicken scratch work; step by step pics are here.

 

Hand Embroidery on Saree

Hye all,

Look what I got….. This beautiful hand embroidered saree is my Amma’s gift for me. One of my favourite and special saree for me.

 This is georgette, olive green colour saree, work is done with silk thread. She used buttonhole and herringbone stitches for flowers. All blue shaded lines are done with chain stitch. Pink and blue colour kundans are used to enrich the look.

You can observe a single border on the upper side and double lower border.  A complete filling is done on the pallu.

Thank you, Amma for such the lovely gift.<3 <3 <3

 

Full view

Pallu

Upper Boarder

Lower Boarder

The Versatile Blogger Award

Dear friends,

I wish to share some happiness with you all. I received a versatile blogger award from Ranjana. I thank Ranjana for considering me. It’s  glad to follow her on   Ranjana’s craft blog

 

 

 

As per the rules Seven random things about me ….

1. I enjoy telling stories to my son.
2. Even though it’s junk; potato chips are my weakness.
3. I miss rainy days of my hometown Dharwad.
4. I can’t watch scary movies. 
5. In my life time at least once I wish to visit Venice.
6. I love reading Kannada books.
7. People around me say that I talk too much .... hmmm and I agree with them :)

Now it’s time to passing the award to

• Adithis Amma Sews - Cute Confessions of a Sew Addict
• Spicy-Aroma 
• This and that...my random thoughts
•  SONIE&#39;S Embroidery World
• leelas hobbies

Last the rules of accepting the award

1.     Thank the blogger who nominated you and link back to them in your post
2.      Share 7 random things about yourself 
3.    Nominate bloggers for the award.
4. Leave a comment on nominated blogs.

 

Hand Embroidery on Bed sheet

Full view

Hello readers, Hope all of are doing well,

Here is a bed sheet which is made by me and Amma six years back. This project is based on Rajasthani art.  The Bedsheet is done mainly using herringbone stitch and chain stitch for lines. These two are very basic stitches. The dark shades of cotton threads are used on deep red background, which gives an ethnic Indian look to the Bed sheet.

 This design is best suited for Diwan set; isn’t it?

I know images are not so clear and I am sorry for that. I hope you like this bed sheet pattern.

Design in the middle

Corner design

Patch Work - Dancing Lady

Dear readers on this blog you have observed many patterns of patchwork portraits done by my mom. Inspired by her beautiful work I have also thought of trying patchwork. I know that I can't match with her neatness in hand embroidery but still attempted one of dancing lady pose of patchwork and posting the same here. 

As always background is done with cotton fabric. I used very simple stitches like filling buttonhole, herringbone, feather stitch, satin stitch, chain stitch and couched trellis stitch. Her saree is filled with random cross stitch. Hairs are done with stem stitch filling. Let me know your opinion on my first attempt of patchwork.
 In my upcoming posts surely you will get tutorials of all above-mentioned stitches.

Running Stitch Tutorial and its varieties

Dear readers, 

This time I am posting on the blog after a long gap, first of all sorry for that.

 Here is a tutorial for the simplest and primary stitch i.e. Running Stitch, and some of its varieties.

As shown in the picture Running stitch is just passing the needle in and out of the fabric; creating a line of stitches of equivalent length and equal space in between.

Varieties of Running Stitch.

1) Whipped Running Stitch

Here are the steps for whipped running stitch. Two-colour threads are used for this stitch.

1^st step: Make running stitch foundation on the fabric.

2^nd step: Pass or weave another color thread through each running stitch from the same side. This weaving should also be done on the top of the fabric, needle should not be pierced. Use a contrast thread which gives a beautiful twisted look.

 

2)  Laced Running Stitch  

For laced running stitch also foundation will be running stitch.

Later on, pass contrast color thread through running stitch. As pictures shown below once pass through the right side of the stitch next time pass through the left of the stitch and so on.

 Similar to whipped running stitch needle should not pierce into the fabric.