lemon yellow tunic

This tunic  is my first effort  on chikan[shadow] work. I wanted to do a overall design. most difficult part of the work was transfering the design to the georgette fabric.When I pinned the fabric to the pattern, it  refused to stay loyal to the pattern.measuring and marking didn’t work at all.My eyes were the only guideline for symmetry.wherever I drew  a pattern, my left hand was fixed over the area.because if this, I got tired pretty quickly.Tranfering took a long time.I just drew the lines and omitted the petals and leaves, which I embroidered approximately.All the drawing was on the wrong side,my mistakes got lost on this[what a relief].For the border I used readymade zari border in parrot green.

  the parrot green isn’t seen.

 

UFO completed

WISH YOU ALL VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR

I designed to work on this tunic in september ’08. And entered this as UFO project  on stitchin fingers group.I hadn’t even  started to work on it, when some of the members had already completed their first project-

When I  join a group , I  should understand the concept, and put some effort towards it- A lesson learnt.

I started to work on this tunic in dec’08.The design was basically shadow work[chikan embroidery]. and the fabric, black chiffon. chosen colour -blue. Maybe I was inspired by the ‘abaya’ worn by Omani women, the attached border is a typical local flair. now the tunic- this is the front.

 the back with a paisley design

the sleeves.

 the tailor did a good job.

I am also thinking of writing a step-by-step of designing a tunic.