TAST week-20, tutorials? patterns?

 

 

Butterfly chain stitch- this is th20th week stitch of TAST stitch challenge.The stitch was a easy one, though I couldn’t do many variations. Seeing all my variations, I want to start crazy quilting after finishing my TAST samplers.

I was browsing the net-

Shawkl is also running a stitch challenge- Twelve dozen stitches in Twelve months-TDSTM.That comes to 3 stitches in a week, I want to join ,but not sure whether I can allot sufficient time to it.-www.shawkl.com.

Shailaja sharma -www.summersofindia.blogspot.com. She has posted a tutorial on ‘anklet stitch’.Till now I can’t get any idea of using this stitch, I’ll wait for her to show me the ropes.

I find  some people are very much interested in learning kutchwork  and phulkari.

 Bhavani Harikrishnan has already provided a good Kutchwork tutorial on her blog-www.needlecrazy.blogspot .com

I f someone could give me a feedback on-

1. You need another kutchwork tutorial?

2 You need kutchworkpatterns?I design my own patterns.

This will help me focus my attention to either of these options.

I ‘ll also start working on my phulkari tutorial and patterns.

 

TAST week-19 basque stitch

This sampler is also in blue. I wanted the shades of peacock blue,can’t say I was successful.Experimenting with this stitch was ok.

 

the curls made this stitch interesting.

 

TAST Week 17 running stitch

Merry Christmas to all,

This is most easiest stitch of all.I thought I ‘ll use some darning stitches to complete this sampler. I worked on a larger even weave ,so the stitches are bigger , the darning stitch idea is totally lost on it. I should say in this challenge, I keep learning so many things. But it  is more of what not to do  than what to do.Green is the main colour, [should have used darker shades].I also thought of doing the ‘kantha ‘ embroidery[ running stitch embroidery], but decided to do it later as a seperate sampler[ when I'll get to it, is the big question]. So with the limited variations, my running stitch sampler-

 

week16 Palistrina stitch

I have been evading this stitch for a long time, I  thought I can’t do justice to this beautiful stitch.I first learnt this stitch in school along with mirror[shisha] work, when I was not interested in embroidery, but I had to get marks. I managed to do it, mirror work was piece of cake, I can’t say the same about  this stitch[ I didn't know the name] . I felt everyother girl’s work  was more appealing. Over the period of time, I conveniently managed  to forget the working of this stitch, I purposely ignored this stitch .

But now,

Palistrina stitch [double knot]was not so easy in the beginning.The irregular twisting of the thread as also a problem.Then slowly, I made progress, I used more strands,kept untwisting the threads after every few stitches. Now the stitch was uniform and it also resembled a knot.

I used fall colours, I have a fascination for them, but the effect was not so great in this sampler. I was able to do morethan 10 variations[ my own challenge].

 

TAST week-15

I have been working on tunics again. Up loading pictures took time.Yesterday I started working on my TAST challenge,Oyster st. This is a new stitch for me.I started learnt the stitch from Sharon’s blog.The stitch being new I didn’t have too many ideas. The colour of the stitch is blue, I didn’t add any other colour to it.This also limited variations. I can’t honestly say, the stitch has come out fine.But, I learnt one new stitch, I finished this week’s challenge. the stitch-

oystyer st detail-1oyster st detail-2oyster stitch

fly stitch

I have completed my sampler of fly stitch.The variations  have been on even weave fabric. Iam still postponing the idea of doing the same  stitches on normal fabrics, thinking, I’ll be stuck with the same stitch for a long time, which might turn boring. I want to be fresh, open to new styles,while working on the samplers.Iam still in the thinking mode for choosing  the next stitch.now to see my finished sampler of fly stitch-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FLY Stitch

A few more of my variations on this fly stitch

I seem to have exhausted my red combinations.Another few lines I’ll be done with this stitch.

Monday was our festival of Deepavali.Here we don’t have fire crackers. I made 2 sweets-cashew khova and mysore pak.I also made the traditional medicine paste.Lots of exchange of sweets and greetings.I wore a red crepe silk saree.

 Iam also working on my yoke- this is taking too much of my time. I thought I’ll finish this fast, but Iam using 6 colours,Iam also planning to add some sequins and beads, which I bought yesterday.

 

tast week -8

I have reached  the end of Fly stitch.It’s a very easy stitch, I have been itching to try the variations. Iam happy I have completed this stitch.I have done only a simple method of varying this stitch,I haven’t ventured into the world of making this into an  artform.  Iam an novice in that field, when I see the pictures of other people’s work, I feel very inadequate, Bit I am sticking to my goal of making stitch samplers.my next  detail of fly stitch

 

 

I have started working on a new yoke design. I ‘ll show the picture,when its half way through.

 

TAST week-8

I am doing this TAST  stitches as a sampler because, I want refer to them at a later date. I never realised I ‘ll have so many variations to do.  I draw the ideas on a paper,then stitch through each and every one of them. some times I do more,and other times I leave out certain variations.Most of my work are on evenweave cloth.sometimes the experiment I want to do is feasible only on normal fabric,I haven’t started on those.I don’t know whether I want to do them now or later.Stitches look neat on even weave.I have also started working on another yoke for my tunic[surely afflicted by fashion show].This is my next detail of FLY stitch

 

TASTweek-8

I worked on few more variations of fly stitch.this is a very interesting stitch.It can used as a line stitch andalso as a motif.I don’t have to think about combining colours,since Iam using   predominantly red colour.I made a mistake of not cutting the cloth properly, the sampler doesn’t look so good. I have to stop here, and continue on another piece.