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

 

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.

Patch Work – Shakunthala

 Hi all 

How are you all ?

Before this also you have seen some patch work patterns with hand embroidery on this blog. I have mentioned that I will post few more patchwork designs. Here is the one, portrait of Shakuntala. Patchwork is one of the favourite types of embroidery of my Amma. She always enjoys doing these patterns. She used various shades of silk threads in this project, which enhanced the beauty of this art piece. Patchwork is done on cotton cloth as always.

The important stitches used are

• stem stitch filling for hairs,
• long and shirt for flowers,
• Satin for dots white dots on the deer
• Round buttonhole, herringbone, Long and short, stem and satin stitches are used on here attire. 

Hope you like this pattern, please let me know with your comments below. 

Rajasthani lady - Machine Embroidery

  Hi, readers How are you?
This design is a blend of machine embroidery with patchwork.  Machine embroidery is an art embroidery method in which a sewing machine or embroidery machine is used to make designs on cloths. It is faster compared to hand embroidery. Machine embroidery is mainly used for commercial purposes. In our collection, we have only two machine embroidery pattern. Soon I will post another pattern also.

This time I am posting one of the oldest patterns of our collection. This piece of art is done by my mother long back. Do you believe it is almost 30 years old? She preserved it so well.  

This Rajasthani lady portrait has vibrant colors and delicate work. It is one of my favourite piece of work. Hope you also like this.

Patchwork - Dancing Lady

Hi all, hope all of you doing great. 

This is one of my favorite piece of artwork. This is a dancing lady pattern of large wall hanging or home decor. Here, we can see a combination of two types of art hand embroidery with patchwork. At first, embroidery is done on specific colored cloth. Let us take for example such as face on skin color fabric etc. Afterwards, all those patches fixed together on a piece of cotton fabric by simple hand stitching. Later stitched them firmly by machine.

For the whole design, silk thread is used. You can observe a variety of stitches are used in this piece of art. Such as

• Stem stitch for all the outlines
• Wheel buttonhole in pieces of jewellery like the long necklace
• Herringbone used for flowers on sari, short necklace 
• Satin stitch for bangles 
• Long and short for hairs, eyes lips etc.    

Hope you liked the work. We have a few more similar patterns. I will publish them in my upcoming posts