Showing posts with label StitchXplorations.... Show all posts
Showing posts with label StitchXplorations.... Show all posts

Thursday, January 31, 2019

TAST-2019

Hello Friends!

Hope you are all doing well. 

After Sankranti, I wanted to take a small break. But it got extended. So I am back now. Actually, on the academics side me and my students are in the last leg of learning for the year. So we are all concentrating on finishing of the portions and start our revisions. Thank fully I am finished up with the teaching portion though a bit later than what I actually planned at. But no problem. Now we are into our first round of revision. 

Well, added to all that hectic schedules, we have a severe cold wave here. With continuous rains on the top of that, I have had some health issues. I need to strictly safe guard myself against the cold. So I am spending most of my time recovering my health.

Amidst all this, I decided to join the TAST 2019 challenge. Well the link is here:



TAST  is a challenge for embroidery, on PINTANGLE  run by Sharon Bogon a very talented  and accomplished artist in embroidery. I love her work and dedication to hand embroidery and quilting.

Actually I am a bit late in posting it here. Already four weeks have gone by. Please do visit the site and read the FAQs. 

Do participate and leave me a line so that I can visit your blog/site. 

There is lot to learn from this challenge. So much creativity and so many ideas. 

Even if you don't participate just go through the previous works of the participants from the PINTANGLE site. There is much more on the site. Please take time to browse.

I have not yet started on the challenge. I did want to join from the first week. Any way one can jump in whenever you like and jump out. I have taken out all my embroidery materials out. It has been a long time. But I want to take it up again.

I will try to do as many as possible. 

My TAST Samplers from previous years are listed out in my PAGES separately so that it is easy for you. Please do go through them.





So do watch out this space. I will be posting my TAST samplers and much more.

Monday, March 30, 2015

StitchXplorations-French Knots

Take a look at my exploration of French Knots.


The back ground is as usual, unbleached heavy cotton cloth. I have used stranded cotton thread mostly. I have used all the 6 strands for a thicker knot. I have also used stem, outline, detached chain, and fly stitches with long tasils.

For grass I have used Rim Jim Threads(it is some what fuzzy) for grass for the fluffy look. 

This is one more stitch I am not so good at. But I think it is better than my satin stitch skills. I find Chinese knots easier than this for filling up.

Strictly speaking Knot stitches are fun once you master them. they give a textured look, a 3D effect and are quite interesting.

What do you say?

This is one more stitch I need a lot of practice

Watch out for more......


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Monday, March 23, 2015

StitchXplorations - Satin Stitch



This is again one more attempt at satin stitch from the same sampler done long time back.
The background is unbleached cotton fabric. I have used a shaded cotton thread, 2 strands. I have outline some petals with back stitch to see how it looks. The leaves and stalk, stem have been done in satin stitch.

I have not filled in the center. I think s few french knots would look nice. I will try them.

What do you think?

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Monday, March 16, 2015

StichXplorations-Satin Stitch


This is a very old sampler. This was my attempt at satin stitch. The stems and sepals of the buds are chain stitch. The center of the flower is diagonal stitch over satin stitch base.

The fabric used is unbleached heavy cotton. I used Neem zari thread; cotton thread with gold or zari thread. 

This one time I got it perfect, as you can see below:


This is not my favorite stitch. Nine out of ten times, I cannot do this perfectly as I would like to. But I have improved over the years.  I need to practice this stitch  to improve my skills. But I keep on postponing it as this stitch is a strain on the eyes. 

What do you say? 

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Monday, September 3, 2012

StitchXplorations-Lazy Daisy


This was done long back for a sampler. I have used Lazy Daisy stitch, Stem stitch and French Knots. The thread I used was tatting and crochet cotton threads and the fabric was unbleached hand woven cotton cloth.



Saturday, September 1, 2012

StitchXplorations...

The Intro

Every time I learn a stitch, I keep on practising it until, I get it right. It also sets a rhythm for that stitch, which makes it easy to stitch. I also doodle a lot, noting down my ideas or thoughts. Many a time it may be variations of same stitch or a combination of different stitches or different medias....sometime it results in creating something new on my own...

It is easy to execute these designs or ideas on cloth and save for future reference, instead of noting down in a book(it needs lots of notes and figs).

I will post such of my explorations of the stitches under this category....as my friends have been asking since long...So just keep watching.......