Butterfly Sampler

Day-2

My head is teaming with so many possibilities and ideas of what material to be used or what stitches to be explored and so on. I need to jot them down- but I am so lazy. This is only Day-2. Here is another butterfly. Again Acrylic kundans. Hope you like it.

I have used different shapes of Kundans. I have also used whipped stem stitch for its feelers.

I have used knot stitch for its eyes.

Hope you have liked this. More to come. Keep an eye on my blog.......

Butterfly Sampler

Day 1

Butterflies...as a child I was fascinated by them. I am still fascinated. They are colourful and when ever I see one,  I feel so happy. They bring out the child in me. So I have been doodling a lot of butterflies. Sketching, painting...but did not save any. Suddenly the other day I felt why not do a sampler on Butterflies?  I just want to see how many varieties of media, or stitches or material I can use in creating them in different shapes, sizes colours......I am not sure how many I can create. So lets us see. Shall we?

Starting from today I will post one on each day (hopefully-I cannot promise) and see how many I can create. So here it is 

These are made of acrylic and available in many colours and also sizes.

Here is a closer look. We can just glue it or attach them through the two holes provided. I have stitched them. It was difficult to photograph them as they were reflecting light.

This was Day 1......now watch my blog for Day 2....

Monsoon in my Garden

The onset of rains has revived my garden. My plants are slowly recovering from the harsh summer heat. here are the signs.

This is the yellow Hibiscus. It flowers very rarely and the plant also does not grow fast like others of its family. After the first rains, it flowered. My joy knew no bounds. Just the other day I scolded her saying she is not flowering properly :).

 Here are the Cherry flowers. 

I have two Cherry plants both in pots. Hope they fruit this year. Last year too they flowered but no fruits. But these flowers look different from those I checked up on net. I hope they turn out to be cherries. Any way I am training them for BONSAI.