Sal kantha - center flower

I have finished the circle around the kantha booti and the petals.

Like I said earlier the flowers and kantha booti are mostly asymmetrical in kantha embroidery.I chose to keep it that way but you can also make it symmetrical if you want.

                                                 

So far I was stitching with only black color and I thought it would be better to throw in some colors.

I have stitched the outline of the circle with whipped running stitch aka paichano using 2 strands of Anchor yellow floss shd # 289. Also I have covered the area between kantha booti and circle with 2 rounds of kantha stitches using the same yellow floss.

I have filled the petals with 2 colors but you could also do this with one color.It looks like satin stitch but it's not.It is kantha stitch filling.I have used 2 strands of purple shd # 112 and variegated pink shd# 1205.

To stitch the petals with kantha filling stitch :-

                                       

    Step 1: Bring the needle and thread up at 'a' and go down at 'b'. Come up near 'b' as shown.

                                        

                                    Step 2: Go down near 'a' and come up as shown.

                                         

                                           Repeat these steps until the petal is covered.

                                          

           This is how the back side looks.I haven't finished the threads at the back yet,sorry.

See y'all next wednesday with an update.

Happy stitching!

Anita.

Whipped running stitch

To begin work a row of running stitch.

                                     







Step 1 : Bring the needle and thread up near the first stitch as shown.

                               

                                     

             












Step 2 : Without piercing the fabric pass the needle and thread under the stitch and pull.

                                                                           

                                     

                                            













Repeat step 2 until all the stitches are whipped.

                                         

                                     

                                             















Go down near the last stitch and fasten off.

more fun this week…sewing,sketching,embroidery..

I had managed to work a little bit on some of the projects, not much progress but even a little progress is better than nothing,right? 

                                       

I had to sew a dozen of these small bibs for the dolls.I couldn't complete the embroidery part when my nieces were here so I worked on that earlier this week and mailed it to them..

                                       

I started working on this blue/yellow needlepoint project for a friend.When there were only a few stitches left I ran out of the dark yellow and blue threads :( . Since my nearest LNS is 50+ kms away from my place this one will go to my UFO basket for now.

                                       

I worked on the design of this shisha piece few months back,started the actual stitching this week..so far am happy the way it's turned out..still lots more to stitch.

Apart from these I did some sketching,some experiments with inktense blocks worked but a few turned out to be a total disaster..

Happy stitching!

Anita