TAST 2014. 30.124. Closed herringbone stitch-3

The paisley designs are associated with mango in Indian tradition. They are called as mango in all languages and not paisley here. While starting this design, the idea of mango was predominant in my mind. With the same idea, the last filling was done in yellow, 304, anchor stranded cotton.

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The outline was worked in stem stitch with brown metallic thread [stem of ripe mango] and beads are added to the outer lines of closed herringbone stitch

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The bead detail-

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It was not practical to work this design – while taking an online class, TAST catching up and embroidery on tunic.  still I enjoyed working on this.Having said that, it seems the impracticality continues on my next TAST stitch too. Al least, we cannot forget the lesson of time taken for each project, this took me 11.5 hours [not continues of course]. I may use this piece on a bag.

 

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The next stage of filling was done with combining two colours, green and yellow [258 and 304] stranded cotton. The lines on the sides are also worked with these threads. I wanted to work the alternate designs in green just as orange, but changed to do this.

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TAST 2014. 30.124. Closed herringbone stitch-1

This was last week’s stitch on TAST challenge by SharonB. I am still catching up on the stitches. The studio journal class is in full swing. Thought along with the exercises, a piece could be designed for this challenge stitch too. The paisley idea continues in this week too. The filling design was an idea inspired by image on pinterest. It is 8inches by 5.5 inches rectangle.
Closed herringbone inside the paisley in orange stranded cotton.

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Green thread was added at the next stage.

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This is taking sometime to work. Exercises for the class are still to be done. Next time a simple design would be better.