Hubby’s kurthas

We get wonderful range of handloom cotton fabrics in Madras.I buy most of my wearables from there.I feel cotton is the best for the summer heat. so many colours, designs,combinations-imagination can run riot here.This time I designed 2 kurthas for my Hubby-

G's red kurtha

The colour dosen’t show well in this picture,It’s a blood red  mercerised cotton fabric.,the pattern is typical Indian kurtha design,I wanted to attach some beads,which raised very strong objection. So, no beads !

G's white kurtha

The fabric is cotton,self block printed white. I like this particular fabric very much. I didn’t work too much on the pattern, just simple curves,and ‘fly’  stitched withanchor  cotton skein. These kurthas were custom made[not upto the mark]. Next time I want to try on readymade kurthas.

 

Nephew’s engagement

It has more than a month since I wrote a post. I went to India  to participate in the engagement of my nephew,Bablu.. This is an arranged marriage.The bride’s name is Gayathri- very sweet girl.

 I had  a wonderful time. On the auspisious time ,the priest reads aloud the marriage invitation, so we made adecorative panels[madal] to stick the invitation-     

 

 

                             the bride’s            groom                                                                             

 

 

 

I made 2 boxes to store these panels-

 

 

 

We also made a thoran[flower arrangement on the entry way]

we tied short artificial  flower strips together , to achieve this result-

The previous day was the valentine’s day- for this we  designed a chocolate bouquet-

I also enjoyed embroidering  my nephews kurthas- 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I wore a kancheevaram silk sari[veldhari- horizontalgold thread all over]

Iam here with my manni[brother's wife] . these are her sons. The dark green sari is our family friend-

I’ll continue  with my embroidery details from the next post. Thankyou  all for all the wonderful comments , you have taken effort to send.  These are helping me a lot.I’ll deal with your requests for your tutorials. after I tackle my stitch challenges, I have just started on my stitch explorer challenge.-chicken scratch