TAST 2013.14.62. Raised cross stitch flower-2

Today I worked this stitch with other TAST stitches to create some motif patterns .

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4.Details of these samples, this stitch is combined with- French knots, arrow head, bullion knots, pistil stitches and detached chain stitches.

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5.The first sample is with stem stitch and detached chain leaves, the second one is with Italian border stitch, the last two are with buttonhole stitch and fly stitches.

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6.The other stitches in these samples are- buttonhole wheel variation, Pekinese stitch variation, sheaf stitch, wheat ear stitch, whipped wheel variation and woven detached chain.

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7.Cretan and herringbone stitches are worked as squares in the first two samples. Fly stitches, feather stitch and Algerian eye stitches are worked in the last three samples.

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These stitch combinations will be useful to use on decorative embroidery projects. This is a lovely stitch.

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TAST 2013.14.62.Raised cross stitch flower-1

This week’s stitch on the TAST 2013 challenge by SharonB is raised cross stitch flower. This is a new stitch for me. This challenge is showing new ways of working on familiar stitches.
The sampler –

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1.In these samples the stitch is worked in different sizes[first four], in two colours and with different threads.

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2.In these samples I varied the cross stitches –ablong , wide, double ,upright, triangle, and star-and worked over them.

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3.Motif patterns were tried by placing the cross stitches differently. The last motif differs from the second motif, with upright cross stitches worked in pink.

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Blue ikat tunic with lemon green printed sleeves-3

The last few details about the embroidery on this yoke . the tunic had white colour in it , so the some outlines were worked with white thread. I tried open chain stitch on the flower outlines.

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Small mirrors were then attached to the fabric with blue thread.

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The yoke placed over the printed lemon green fabric.

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I found a plain lemon yellow handloom cotton fabric for salwar [Indian style pants] for this tunic top. The whole set was given to the tailor for sewing.
The completed tunic-

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Close up of the yoke on tunic.

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I love this blue and lemon yellow/green combination . I am very fond of the colours of kanjeevaram silk sarees . After buying the blue ikat fabric, the subsequent steps were all because of the kanjeevaram silk saree fever. The inspiration for motif came from ethnic Indian designs. Not much time was employed to work this yoke, and a  very  satisfying project.

 

Blue ikat tunic with lemon green printed sleeves-2

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.

 

Blue ikat tunic with lemon green printed sleeves-1

After completing the stitch samplers of the TAST challenge, I am resuming the details of the embroidery designs on tunics . this tunic fabric is hand woven ikat fabric in blue.

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I don’t have a separate picture of the sleeve fabric. It is pin-tucked fabric in lemon green/yellow block printed with blue floral motifs.
The idea was for a small yoke worked in another fabric of the same blue base.
A simple motif repeat pattern, with round outlines for mirrors.

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The thread colours were picked from the tunic and sleeve fabrics. Anchor cotton skeins were used throughout this embroidery.
Herringbone stitches worked with lemon green thread-

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More details on my next post.

 

Blue ikat tunic with dark pink yoke-3

The embroidery in this yoke is done in surface satin stitch. The outlining is done in back stitch. The next colour silk thread was light pink. The dark pink thread which was used earlier was not very visible on this piece, to complete the colour co-ordination, I used this colour.

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the centre motif was influenced by ethnic Mexican design, I used medium and light blue for this motif, which are the colours on the tunic. This picture did not come out very well, I realized only after it was transferred, couldn’t take another one because, I had passed on to the next stage of the embroidery.

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The last filling stitch was in medium blue colour.

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The completed yoke, will be posted tomorrow.

 

Blue ikat tunic with dark pink yoke-2

Generally I choose the colour from the tunic fabric for yoke, if it has two or three colours, one colour is chosen for the yoke, the other colours are used for the embroidery. In this yoke, a totally different colour was chosen and the colours of the tunic are used for the embroidery. Now for the details,
The small squares done in dark pink thread were outlined with white thread.

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The next colour on the border is light blue, which is the same blue colour on the tunic fabric. the dark pink colour is also used for filling the shapes in the centre.

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I used silk threads for this embroidery, the white colour thread is cotton skein. Further details on my next post.

 

Blue ikat tunic with dark pink yoke-1

This tunic is a medium blue, hand loom woven ikat fabric. I wanted to wear this as short top [kurthi] over jeans or trousers. And the idea was to use, an ethnic design which had bold geometric elements. The tunic fabric

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The yoke fabric was in dark pink.

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An Mexican,[ or early Indian] pattern was chosen for embroidery. Then this was drawn to suit my requirements. With the yoke fabric being dark, I did not use bold colours for embroidery.
The first thread colour was dark pink, this shape will be outlined later with cream colour thread. The filling of shapes were done with surface satin stitches[ or phulkari as in ethnic Indian embroidery].

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The working of this ethnic pattern will be continued on my next post.

 

kutchwork tuorial woven motif-9

Last week, I was working on a kutchwork motif as a part of yoke design. this motif was interlaced. the  instructions  of  working the woven version of this interlaced motif is posted here.

the motif on yoke-

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The steps  of weaving this motif pattern is posted here.

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