Orange and green yoke on cream tunic-6

Rim jim thread, sequins and antique golden beads were stitched on to the yoke as embellishments.
the fully completed yoke-

ora&gree on cream tunic- yoke

I placed the yoke and the borders on the tunic fabric to see the effect-

The yoke and borders after being sewn on the tunic-

ora&gree yoke on cream tunic-yoke

The yoke and sleeves-

ora&gree on cream tunic- yok&sleeves

The close up of the yoke_

yoke close up

More time was taken working on the borders. Yoke embroidery did not take much time, but I finished the borders first, then started on the yoke. Guess I was tired of working on this piece for such a long time, I wanted to complete the yoke as early as possible, so the embellishments were kept to the minimum. When I look at the yoke now, I can see more scope for embellishments.
I have worn this tunic several times, very apt for small festivities.

 

Orange and green yoke on cream tunic-5

In this post, the embroidery on the yoke is detailed. The stitches worked are predominantly herring bone,with outlines worked in back st.
I started with green colour thread-

ora&greeon cream tunic-yoke green

The next colour was maroon and then violet-

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The outlines are worked in back stitch in cream and yellow.

ora&gree on cream tunic-yoke wip2

The fully completed yoke with beads on my next post. The idea for embroidery is taken from gujarati embroidery, the motifs are similar, but with some differences – the bead work, the straight stitches were added for embellishing. So , this is Not a authentic gujarati embroidery yoke piece.

 

Orange and green yoke on cream tunic-4

In this post, I’ll complete the border details . After working the back stitches in yellow, The rim jim thread- variegated colour was worked through the small straight stitches [same as the other border]

ora&gree on cream tunic- border 2

The three lines of running stitches were embellished with pearls and gold beads[ not real ones!]
Thinking about the embellishing was easier, working on it , that too , four times ,took really long!
The completed borders-

completed border

Part of the yoke is completed with the two borders, rest of the yoke on my next post.

 

Orange and green yoke on cream tunic-3

The embroidery of the second border for this tunic’s sleeves is done on greenish red mangalagiri cotton with stripes. With this stripes, I don’t have to draw lines for embroidering. And the embroidery was also designed in such a way to use these lines as markings.
I did four patches of this borders- two for sleeves[long] and two for the yoke borders[short]. The embroidery is the same for both.
On each border, Six lines of running stitch  are  worked leaving four lines in the middle for other details.. This is the picture of the running stitches worked on the fabric-

ora&gree on cream tunic- bor runningst

Small straight stitches in green were worked in the centre – for the rim jim thread to weave through.
And two lines of back stitches are worked in yellow thread in between the running stitch lines and the straight stitchline.

straight&back st- border

The bead work on this border on my next post. Iam posting these details of this border because, these can be incorporated for any decorative seam.

 

Orange and green yoke on cream tunic-2

This tunic has yoke and sleeves embroidered on two fabrics- greenish red and orange.
The detailing of the sleeves- I made two simple borders, one in orange and another one in greenish red. The orange border-
A line of back stitch worked in cream, over that I wanted the rim jim thread going in a zig zag pattern. For this small straight stitches were worked in light yellow colour thread , and the rim jim thread was just passed through these small stitches.
The orange border after the embroidering-

orange&green tunic-orangeborder1

Small sequins were attached with red beads -

ora&gree on cream tunic- orange border2

This border is done only for the sleeves, the yoke does not have a this detailing on it.
The detailing of the other border for the sleeves on my next post.

 

Orange and green yoke on cream tunic-1

The tunic is cream colour chanderi cotton fabric, with traditional Indian print in burnt orange and green colours.

Orange&green on cream tunic-fabric

I was in a fix whether to use orange or green colour for yoke.generally I work on one colour for the fabric, choose the other colour and the tunic base colour for embroidery. This time I thought I’ll use both green and orange colour fabrics for yoke. After this the sleeve borders were also  to be done in two colours.
Along with the embroidery, rimjim thread, small pearls and sequins were also used as embellishments. I’ll start with the detailing of the sleeves from my next post.

 

Towel edging -2

The begining  for this cross stitch on the towel is the same one. the patterns were also from the same source.Now for the second towel-

Floral towel edging-2

The closeup of this pattern-

flral towel edging-2 closeup

I liked this pattern, will work good for bookmarks also.

Still staying motivated by the postaweek challenge.

 

Towel edgings-1

In 2009, I worked four towel edgings in cross stitch.

 Isaw a towel,edged with evenweave cloth, this  idea inspired me to buy a towel cloth and  an evenweave[rectangular or matti] cloth from Bombay deing store in  Chennai.

 Then I asked the tailor to attach  these two fabrics and edge it with lace. He was able to make four towels.

The patterns for these towels I took from Antique pattern library.

the first one-

towel edge-1 WIP

 

Yes, They are all pink towels, I was trying to hide the fact  till now!

The finished towel-

towel edge-1

I’ll continue with my towel edging story.

After joining the post a week challenge, Iam motivated to write more posts.

 

6.Buttonhole eyelet flower TAST 2010

Bullion stitch has started the chasing game again with me.

When I encountered bullion in TAST 1 challenge, I got scared,

A few times earlier, I have had my very bad days with  bullion st.This time I decided, I ‘ll struggle with it. I ‘ll do all the necessary steps,whatever the result may be,This will be my version of bullion.

Thought of trying  some variations ,I started with  a few  buttonwhole wheels-

6. buttonholeeyeletsampler -1

This sampler is in blue.I can’t procrastinate any more, I have to sart my bullion st.

6.but -eye -flo sampler2

Itried with beads too. I tried mixing other stitches with  my bullions[They are really my bullions,because they do have some peculiar charecteristics]A few more-

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.this time I tried the stitch around the flower at last, till now they turned away from the buttonhole.

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This is  the whole sampler. Though the sampler is completed, I need to work more, but I can definitely postpone now.

6.but-eye-flo-samp-5

 

Stitch Explorer-3 March Assissi embroidery-2

This  is the 2nd picture I had designed earlier for doing  assissi embroidery.I have maintained the basic idea of miniature [Indian]  in this also. This is also a symmetrical floral design.

I did not work on the blackwork filling patterns ,when I designed these pictures.Along with working on the design, I had to calculate on the overall blackwork pattern too.I am doing  a different pattern for each picture, just to give myself a variety.

 

I stitched my initials on the big flower petal.

The picture allignment is not good, too late to do something about it.

Little imperfections are part of the trade!

The border is a geometrical pattern.

This is not a square weave  cloth, it is rectangular. Important detail-which I overlooked, while calculating the number of squares for the designs,.Fortunately I found that before I started working, and added 10 squares to the width and adjusted.