April 29, 2013
An acquaintance of mine wanted an embroidered yoke in cream. She said that her cream based kalamkari fabric needed a multi coloured embroidered yoke. Since I had not seen the fabric, the colours were chosen on the basis of matching it with cream/gray/black.
The embroidery was done with, chain, herringbone filling, back stitch and double cross stitches. Starting with dark blue thread-
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Then moved on to dark pink, majenta, medium blue
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April 21, 2013
This tunic fabric is soft handloom cotton in mustard yellow colour and on it are large block printed floral prints in Indigo blue.
Ipyellow-tunic fabric
The idea was, to embroider neckline and yoke with large and medium round mirrors.This yoke fabric was indigo blue with small stripes in black, which was perfect.
Embroidery details-
The spaces in between the mirror placements were embroidered in Cretan stitch filling in yellow colour of the tunic fabric.
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The yoke part- the Cretan fillings were outlined with zari[metallic] thread. The mirror circles were also outlined in chain stitch with majenta cone thread.
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January 14, 2013
The tailor had given me the centre piece of the tunic fabric to work the yoke. I was eager to start the embroidery, but forgot to take picture after each thread. The threads used were cotton skeins and metallic threads in green and copper and gold. The yoke-
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The yoke after completion with beads and sequins.
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The pattern for the yoke-
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The tunic-
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Sleeves-
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Yoke-
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I wear this tunic with same yellow fabric of the borders. This kind of colour combination is typical of south Indian silk sarees. I love this tunic and enjoyed working on this.
January 13, 2013
Sequins and beads were added to the outer borders worked in chain stitches.
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The borders are completed and were placed on the tunic .
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The border pattern
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January 12, 2013
Shades of green were worked with cotton skein and metallic thread. And now chain stitches were worked in light green thread on the florals on the pattern.
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Completed with light green thread.
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Small antique gold beads were added on the beads and florals.
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January 11, 2013
After working the straight stitches and chain stitch lines with brown thread , the green on the tunic fabric was the next thread. Chain stitches were worked with this thread.
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The thread next in line was dark green thread
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Leaves with metallic thread.
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January 10, 2013
I had earlier worked a plain green tunic with zardoai work. I think I am fond of green and gold combination. This green tunic fabric is mangalagiri cotton with stripes.
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The idea was to work a separate border on a golden yellow fabric for the sleeves and a small yoke pattern on the tunic. Chain stitches were used throughout this project. Antique gold beads and sequins were used. Threads were anchor cotton skeins and metallic.
The width of the borders was 8cms. Since this work was done on yellow fabric, the colours used were brown and green[s].starting with the dark brown colour. This was the colour of the stripes on the tunic fabric.
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December 23, 2012
This embroidery pattern and working are based on ethnic Indian designs.
The progress on the embroidery on this blue yoke- the tunic being woven ikat, the white colour on the tunic formed light blue streaks in some places. The next colour on the yoke was light blue, this was also worked in herringbone stitches.
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With sleeves in lemon yellow, the next colour was lemon yellow with lemon green outline in chain stitch.
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The next shade of yellow was from the tunic. chain stitches were worked with this thread.
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This yellow shade continues with more outlining in chain stitch. The blue thread comes back again with chain stitch outlines. these are for mirrors.
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The completed yoke and tunic on my next post.
February 26, 2012
The pictures of the four chain stitch varieties , which I had worked this week.
A. cable chain stitch
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b- knotted cable chain stitch
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c-checkered chain stitch
8.ch C che ch sampler
d-shell chain stitch
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February 26, 2012
This is the last stitch for this week’s chain stitch challenge. This was the 32nd week’s stitch of previous TAST challenge.
I had not done this stitch before,
1- so the sample started with the working of the stitch,then I tried the long and short version of this stitch, then I tried changing the direction of the shell chain, thne worked two rows of this stitch.
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2-a.I tried inserting the needle in the same hole of the chain stitch, then alternated with normal shell chain stitch.
b. I wanted to two shells on this row, but this looks like a buttonhole variation or feather stitch variation.LOL!
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3-in this row, individual shell chain stitches are worked on variegated thread.
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4-a.the shell chain are worked in three different lengths.
b. the shell chain stitch is worked with normal chain stitch.
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5- in these rows the shell chain stitch is combined with open chain and twisted chain stitches.
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6- a zigzag version of shell chain stitch.
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7-a- I tried twisting the shell stitch in this row.
b. the shell is worked over the twisted chain stitch.
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8- a. Instead of starting the shell stitch in the same line, I started it in the next hole.
b. I tried combining shell chain stitch and cretan stitch. It is good that I have written what I have done in this row, otherwise , I wouldn’t recall this weird idea, by looking at it.LOL!
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9- the shell chain stitch worked with cross stitch.
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10-I did this row of shell chain stitch with detached chain stitch.
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With this row the shell chain stitch sampler is complete. I am also finishing the varieties of chain stitch for this week.
