ruffled, layered skirt, another trial !

This time I tried a ruffled, layered skirt with my old duppatta…here it is ,

stitching and all is not perfect, but still I love it …..it is super easy…

wanna try one for ur little princess ???? visit http://www.danamadeit.com/tutorials, find a collection of baby dresses tutorials.

happy sewing….

My first trial..

Here is my first trial on my Brother LS2000, a small frock for my cute princess Ichnu…(Ishani, my sisters daughter), she is 5 months old.

 

She is now at West Bengal, anxiously waiting for her arrival to try raji ammas creation on her .

My new Friend….

One year back  I started my blog merely out of curiosity, just to know what is a blog…but now my blog is a delight for me, learned so many techniques,  got many friends from different countries , If my post delays there are friends who enquires about that, it is nothing but a few words, but that words means a world to me…thank u my dear friends, you are really my strength and support.

Okie now lemme introduce  my new friend,

A brother LS2000 Sewing machine…. This is my b’day gift from Saj. Being a total illiterate about sewing, I was not much excited initially, but now I started learning the art of dress making…..I ll share my works with u in coming days.

About the machine, with 21 stitch functions, 3 needle position selector, variable stitch width and length control, a perfect machine for a beginner.  I cant comment on durability now, it takes time, mmm let us see….

Griffin Stitch– a Sampler

 Here z my Griffin…
bfore that the pattern and stitch courtesy Needlenthread, the embroider's encyclopedia !




what an excellent photographic skill……hi hi hi lol…. iam just trying Mary Corbet’s
hmmmm way to go…..

the stitches involved are stem stitch for border, then griffin and to enhance the beauty french knots.
This is the final output, there are flips and flops, it should be there na, anyway it z the first sampler……I really enjoyed working this wonderful stitch….. itz easy and really less time consuming, try yourself..and of course share with us….

phase 1
phase 2

Learning Griffin Stitch - Phase 2

a little progress from phase 1….

at first sight it gives a complicated image, but believe me it is not complicated, before starting up with needle and thread do some work with pencil and scale, draw the cells…. then take needle and thread, its really easy…..

Find the detailed tutorial of this stitch in Mary Corbet’s Needlenthread.

ll be back soon with finished work…


finished pattern here

Learning Griffin Stitch–Phase 1

Hooohooo Iam back………. I was not much active with new posts for a while, but that doesn’t mean I was away from this wonderful blogland. I am a regular visitor at all my favorite blogs, (u know tat na….my comments were always there in all ur new posts..hi hi hi ), and that visits leads to this post. I just want to show u a beautiful stitch called Griffin Stitch. Griffin stitch simply satisfies all my stitch preferences, I always love working with different colors of thread, I love big patterns (its tooo tedious to fill big patterns, so I stick to smaller ones), and the most important is it gives a different unique look to our work…..

I have started working a pattern, not yet completed, here z the work in progress,

The other one….

I ll update the progress…..
Love to hear from u….. and eager to see ur experiments with Griffin…..

next phase
Finished pattern.

Blanket Stitch Scallops..

Hi,

yep, a small hiatus from blogging, finished some books in between (thanks to readersweb, for motivating me to restart my reading habit), actually nothing was happening at the embroidery side, not because of lack of time, but was not in a mood to take up big projects.

But like any other embroiderers, I too cant keep the thread and needle away for long, so I tried to concentrate on some small works.

Here see this cute Blanket Stitch Scallops, I learned this stitch form Sarahs hand embroidery tutorials, this is one of my track pants, it was a bit long, so I cut it short, I was planning to do the edging by some straight stitching by folding the fabric. but after noticing this stitch at Sarah’s site, I decided to try it on, I think the result is excellent….It gives a cute and stylish look to my old track pants.

I love it , what u think ?????

Raji.