Works in April

Hello there..
I have been totally away from the blog land. Lot of issues like health, kids exams and then vacation etc. I was present here but my mind inactive for a while. The soaring heat even in the Garden City like Bangalore has added to the list of issues. So here are few things I did in the past month..

I completed a Madhubani painting. This painting had few empty white space, and in the end I messed up by adding more leaves in black color.  I am owl fan and I always wanted to paint owl in Madhubani and this is achieved. I am soon going to try new one as I am not satisfied.

I completed two small level embroideries. These were just to fill the void in the ready kurthas that I bought. I know you would say there is nothing great here,  and I agree to that 😊. Only thing is that the tops have become more wearable like.

What is fascinating nowadays in the silk thread jewelry. Recently I just happened to attend a small party in one of our neighbors and that lady had called her friend who was into Silk Thread jewelry. I saw them and thought I could also try them at home. So for the start up, I just completed a couple of them. I kept them very simple without any embellishments.

So what's happening at your end? Thanks for visiting...

Small hand embroidery on Kurta

I love crafting and more than anything else I love hand embroidery. I usually search for tops having some sort of hand embroidery. They are bit expensive and it's justified as it takes effort and time.

Few months back, I had bought  a block printed cotton fabric for getting my self a kurta stitched. I first give a trial piece to stitch before giving anything to any new tailor I want to try. As it happens with most of us, it didn't fit me perfectly. The plain and simplicity of this Kurta made me to try my naive embroidery skills.
I first drew triangles using free hand and a bright colored color pencil. Thus you see no two triangles same ☺ The stitch I used is Herringbone Stitch.

The top had a plain join like thing in the middle which ran till the neck. The filled triangles look more uneven as there was a long time gap in between stitching. It's not perfect but now my kurta looks wearable.

These are couple of cross stitch projects that I did when I was bored during our one year stay in Germany(some 10 years back). I wanted to do something similar. I searched for ready made cross stitch kits on Amazon.in but options were limited and I found it bit expensive. I guess they are imported. I wish my husband was smart enough in these things to get them from his Germany trips.

I am planning to start with this Volkswagen cross stitch project. Hope I put my plan to action soon. I am right now in the stage of gathering threads.

Source : Pinterest

So see you soon with another post.