TAST Week 14 -Satin Stitch

Hi Friends,
I have been away from blogging for sometime.  I know I have disappointed many of my friends, during the past weeks, I'm really sorry for that. But sure I'll catch up the TAST which I have missed.
 This week when I opened Pintangle, I saw it was Satin Stitch, its one of my favorite stitches. Then I took out My TAST sampler and drew a Butterfly,  and  started stitching. Here is my Butterfly,

I used Multi coloured Machine Embroidery thread.  Butterfly half stitched.

 The Butterfly has turned out to be more colourful.

I hope you enjoyed my Butterfly,Thank you for Vising my Blog.

Cheers

Savitha.

Cretan Stitch Motif Completed

Hi Friends,
I somehow managed to complete the motif the flowers and Leaves are stitched with cretan stitch.
Flowers

 Leaves

 The whole motif

Cheers
Savitha.

TAST Week - 4 - Cretan stitch

Hi Friends,
I'm posting the first post of Week -4 of Sharon's TAST challenge. The work is still in progress, I'm posting as I stitch along. This is the design I choose to stitch.

 First flower  filled with Cretan Stitch

I have done one more motif on cretan stitch, you see it here. After posting the photos, I have a doubt, have I done the right stitch, or not?

Cheers

Savitha.

TAST Week-3 Feather Stitch.

Hi Friends,
Here are some of my experiments on Feather Stitch for TAST 2012 week 3.  Its a free hand embroidery without any tracing of designs. This is my first attempt and turned out better. It is a Thorny bush with little blooms.

I have made the floor also with feather stitch.but a little bit messy. turned out well.

Thank you for visiting my blog

Cheers

Savitha.

Button Hole stitch Flowers

I have tried some flowers with Button hole wheels.
Here are the pictures

Cheers
Savitha.

TAST - 2012 -Fly Stitch Week -1

Hi Friends,
This is my first TAST challenge. Sharon has announced Fly Stitch for the first week. The design I selected for Fly stitch is this.

 Here are some of my experiments on Fly stitch to make the flower look more the way it is.

The first one looked better than the second one. so I decided to stitch all the flowers with the first version of the fly stitch.

The completed motif.I have used french knots to fill the center of the flowers and stem stitch for the stems. The leaves are made of plain fly stich.

The  Flowers are  made of Fly stitch, these photos show how to make the flower.

Thank you for visiting my blog.  And All the Best for your TAST too.

Cheers,

Savitha.

Dimensional Embroidery 3 - Winter Jasmine and Heather.

Hi Friends,
My third attempt on Dimensional Embroidery. I got this design from a book called "Embroideries from an English Garden" written by Carol andrews.

Cheers
Savitha.

Flowers in Embroidery.

Hi friends,
Here are some more flowers from my embroidery. This piece was done by me around 10 years ago.
This orange and red flower made with weave stitch and outlined with chain stitch.

The pink flower is made with herringbone stitch. the center of the flower is outlined with stem stitch.

The leaves are made of button hole stitch and the veins with herringbone stitch.

The Blue flower is again made with button hole stitch, and the pollens and stamen, with yellow French knots and dark blue stem stitch. The center of the flower is again made with button hole outline and satin stitch in the middle.

The leaves are stitched with satin stitch. the purple with long button hole stitch and the centre with satin stitch

The Colourful Butterfly made with multi coloured machine embroidery thread.  The edges made with satin stitch, and inside of the feathers stitched with chain stitch. The antenna stitched with stem stitch. 

The red flower is stitched with button hole stitch and satin stitch. the center of the flower is stitched with couching and inverted buttonhole stitch.

This red flower is stitched completely with satin stitch. The leaf is made of net stitch.

This is my full garden of flowers with a butterfly.

Thank you for visiting my blog. Your comments are most valuable to me.

cheers,

Savitha.

My Embroidery Sampler.

First part



Second part



Third part



Hi everyone,
These are my embroidery samplers(pictured part by part). it has around 30 stitches and its different variations. I have named some of them. Now its time for me to talk about my embroidery guru (teacher). She is a nice lady. she was my neighbour(now she went back to her home town). she is so wonderful, that whenever she learns something new she'll surely come and teach me. I enjoyed those days a lot, now i really miss her. It was she who restarted my embroidery work and created a craze in me. Hats of to her. I had embroidered a sari(which is at present in India, i'll post its picture some months later), two backrests for my Sofa set, and some of my daughter's langa blouses(Pattu Pavadai blouse). I feel happy to write about her, if she happens to read this post someday she will also feel happy and I look forward for it.