Kutchwork on Blouse

We had puja last Sat at home and I bought 2 blouse pieces from the Indian store. I am going to put one to a good use buy doing kutchwork on one for my mom. It is a simple piece, just trying my luck with it. I did half on the sleeve and I need to do the other half next...I hope my mom likes it.

I traced the design first on the 5mm graph sheet then put that sheet under the fabric and traced it. It was simple and easy, but if there are any other methods, I would love to try those.

I ordered a fabric from online store, it is dupioni silk in red color, and I plan to work the same design there too. Let's see how far I will go..

Here is the final picture. I completed the work in bits and pieces in 3 days. Not so neat but can be better next time.

The first one is done on sleeves and the second one for back.

Velvet Ganesha

I was looking for some kind of long painting for my 2-storey stair wall. I went around stores and dind't like anything. I had to make something on my own and that too before our house warming which was in 3 days. And I was in a different city working and will be leaving next day to my city. I got an idea! to make something with Velvet paper that mom brought in variety of colors. I knew for sure that it had to be something with Lord Ganesha.

I googled for some pretty designs and found one that I liked the most. Luckily, I found a printer in our office that makes large prints and that too in color. I took request from the concerned dept and printed out Ganesha on the day I was driving back home. I was so excited about making something beautiful with it. I sat all Friday with it and completed it and hung it. The photo is little old as it was made 2 years back, but I still love the way I made it. I had yet work to do that is to put pearls around the Ganesh but Ravi asked me to leave it as it is.

Kutchwork

This is one special kind of embroidery from India. And this is closely related to Armenian Embroidery.

The one thing I loved from childhood is Kutchwork. I have seen people working on it but nobody was ready to teach me at that time. They thought I was too young to learn that.
The time passed like anything and I landed in US and was yawning to learn it but no books were found that talked about it.

But, one fine day, I found a blog related to this and some lady designed it and explained it in such a simple way and I was pregnant then, went to the store, got the hoop and practised on a new T-shirt for almost 4 hours. That day I got up at 530 am and practised it. One thing I realised about this is, if you don't practise well, you will definitely lose the touch.

When my mom came for helping me out with delivery and the baby. I showed her the designs I made. She was very impressed and it seems she always wanted a saree with the kutch work design. But, she could never learn it due to the work and all. I have decided to make a saree for my mom, this is going to be surprise though. So, let's see. I already have two things on my mind to surprise her.