Finished Peacock

Finally I finished this piece of embroidery after a long long time. I really felt bad for not completing this earlier.From last September my health was not that good and in Feb this year I came to the US and because of the winter here I had severe joint pain and till now it is not fully gone.Anyway I managed to sit  and finish this Peacock.Though it is not perfect, I am happy I completed it.I finished the border sequins first as I was in a hurry to see the effect of that as a border.And It was a BIG mistake as the filling of the remaining part of the feather became very difficult as the thread caught in the sequins for every single stitch.The lesson I learnt is I should do the body first and then the border.
This is gift for my son and daughter-in -law for their new house.

Paper Basket

I keep browsing the net for crafts(any kind) whenever I have free time.Due to my joint pain(blame it on the weather) I am not able to do any embroidery. So just keep on looking for some form of crafts in the net and I bumped into tutorial.The end result was so inspiring I started to make this basket.I have to do glue painting to make it stiff and finish it with colouring.

You can see the paper rolls in the back.

 this is exactly like weaving a Wicker basket, and the result after painting will be exactly like that. The link is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsBEv-sdEm0.There are lots of tutorial available in the you tube.Enjoy!

IT IS SPRING HERE IN THE US

Hi  everybody.It has been a long long time since I opened my blog.We landed in Orlando to visit our Son and his family.The weather was really cold out there at that time and due to that I had severe pain in my joints. After a month of stay we came to Georgia to stay with our Daughter and her family.Here too the cold continued.Due to severe pain in my limbs I didn't do any sewing or embroidery. As we come from a very very hot place(India) it is very difficult to accustom to this cold weather. Now slowly the Sun has started coming out and the weather is improving. But two days in a week it rains and ohlala...the cold  returns..But we go out for a long walk when it is warm out side and I took some snaps of the colorful Spring here. Here it is....

I Bought a new sewing machine.It is a Singer sewing machine.I will try out all the stitches and will post it in my next posting.At present I am going crazy about the beaded  jewellery making and started buying beads for that.Once I do some thing fully I will post it too.See you all soon..Hopefully :)

From Dubai

We suddenly decided to visit Dubai during the shopping festival and here we are. We are staying in my nephew's house and we are having a great time here with his family.He has a daughter and a son who are very sweet and smart.As soon as we arrived they took a liking to us.They are brought up well and they are very well behaved.All these years I did not know that my nephews wife Deepa too was interested in crafts.Her daughter Bhavna too loves to learn new things.I taught them how to make paper beads and immediately she made one..Very shrewd.I would like to share some of their works here.

For a beginner,I think this far too good.This is done using embossed painting and the stems are zardosi and the ends are sequins.The first one(Ganesha) is glass painting.The last one is done by Bhavna.

Neck Design

This one I started long back and still limping towards completion.I was not doing well and so this delay.Now that the major part is over and wanted to stitch the lines and I am confused on what stitch to use for that.I have tried Spanish knotted chain here and I am not so happy about that.Any suggestion?Leela can you help me out?

WARM WISHES

WISH YOU ALL A VERY VERY HAPPY AND COLORFUL NEW YEAR!

More Threads

Hi everyone..I am back  after a long break. I was not keeping well for the last two months but I am slowly limping back to normalcy and hope to get better soon and will continue my stitching and embroidery.And also, there was a marriage in the family and that kept me busy too.
Today I received a parcel from my children(son and daughter together) and guess what ? THREADS!.It is never too much when it comes to anything that is connected to embroidery or stitching.How can someone say NO when it it comes to these things.You never have ENOUGH of these.

During some of those odd days, when you have no mood to sew or to do embroidery, I like to go through all my collections and arrange them and dream of doing so much.(At least let me dream!) End of the day I feel happy and refreshed.

Coming to the threads , I got perle cotton no 5 with which I am planning to try some stump work.The fire line beading wire is for jewellery making and the variegated floss is for some small projects which I am planning to frame it and give back to them as my gift.Let me see how much will I be able to finish in the list:).

I am leaving to the US in Feb and have a lot to stitch for myself. And I have to do some shopping and  really have to plan everything and try my best to stick to it. Presently I am doing embroidery on a short tops and almost finished it.Will post it soon.