Embroidered Neck Piece

Inspired by one neck piece design on Etsy, I made this embroidery.

Can be completed in little less than 3 hours.

Kashmiri Neck Design

Inspired from Jizee's blog, I tried my hands at this simple chain stitch

work with Mercerized mixed color thread.

Kutch Work: Kurta

Yesterday evening I went home and saw that my son was sleeping. And when he sleeps, I jump into making something that is either pending or start something new. I wanted to design something on the kurta fabric that I got recently, and I didn't have mood to draw it on graph sheet first and then trace it. So, I used my hand free style to draw the diamonds and there we go, could do it in less than 5 minutes. I then started the design and completed in less than 2 hours. This was simple to make and so no fuss. It would have taken less time may be but I had to remove one whole line after making the design in order to make it more thicker.

Wall Kutch Work

I have been working on the Kutch Work design on Aida fabric to hang on the wall. Started a week ago, let's see when I will get to finish that.

Update: May 26. One border has been completed on this one.

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.

Wall Hanging-Blackwork

When I was sitting in a Library couple of years back, I found this book called Black Work Embroidery. At that time I was a student doing my MS in Computer Engineering and I had loads and loads of homework to complete. But, picked up that book, took it home and was amazed to see different designs. Then I had to keep it aside as I had to concentrate more on my paper work.

Then after few years, married and when pregnant, I wanted to learn something new to remember that I did something useful and not just sat around doing nothing. That is when I thought about this Black Embroidery and went back to the local library. Actually I had forgotten the name of the book and had to do a lot of search but luckily found it and the next project was to buy the aida fabric. I then started searching on eBay and found it to be very expensive. Later made a trip to Michaels and found the aida fabric and the price was less, so I grabbed a large piece and walked home. I picked up a nice design from the book that had various stitches and then started drawing the outline with a pencil. Half way through realised that it is going to get very big, so I took it only 1/4th of the design and made it shorter and here is how it looks.

I badly wanted to work this on a white fabric to make it as a saree for my mom, but never got the fabric. Someday, I will and someday I will make it.