I Explore To Be Creative

My friend had a piece of shawl fabric from an old salwar that she was not using. She wanted to learn to stitch a skirt for her child with it. It was simple. We started out with a skirt and made a gathered skirt.;) But since we had excess fabric I made an extra dress. :)

Finally I settled for a simple design and started on it. But I don't get much time to sit with it. It's a very slow progress but what I have done so far is this... tatda..

I started this project with the hope of finishing it soon..I had it all planned out.and it was coming out just fine until this point..after finishing so much i'm stuck now at deciding what design to do in between the lines, should i use multi colour thread and with what stitch. I had decided on circular design with the chemanthy stitch but at this point i am doubtful about how good it would be.. any suggestions???

GRANITE STITCH EYELET STITCH CORDED CUT WORK SATIN STITCH FILLED RUNNING STITCH

LAZY DAISY STITCH BLANKET STITCH SATIN STITCH BULLION KNOT STEM STITCH CHAIN STITCH BACK STITCH RUNNING STITCH SATIN STITCH SATIN STITCH FILLING STITCH FILLING STITCH SEED STITCH FISH BONE STITCH KNOTTED CABLE Bullion Stitch Feather Stitch Fly Stitch Long And short Stitch Herring bone Stitich Satin Stitch Lazy Daisy Stitch Blanket Stitch Chai Stitch Running Stitch Back Stitch

I did this for my Sil..4 yrs back :) When i was going through my album i found this and decided to put it up. Both of us had gone out shopping and had bought this sheet but we could not find a matching pillow cover. So, we went and bought a plain cover and i traced the picture from the sheet and did the embroidery..the colours dont match much since at that time i did not get the same colour thread and they were in a hurry they had to travel back home the next day. but all in all.. it came out well. :)

I know its been sometime now since I have written here, been kind of busy with things at home, but today I had some time and was browsing when I saw this blog http://deepashome.blogspot.com/ I really loved to see her work. They are so beautiful. I was going through her tutorial and decided to give it a try. I tried out the Chemanthy work and did it with ordinary cotton thread and hope it has come out right. It was fun trying out somethign new. Thank you Deepa :) http://deepashome.blogspot.com/2008/07/chemanthy-work-indian-embroidery-method.html