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Thursday, 27 July 2017

Churukku pai or Potli bag

Hi friends, you must be knowing that I stitched a top and posted in my blog in the name of lining top.
Today I had an idea for using the remaining cloth for stitching a Churukku pai.

As the forthcoming season is a festive one with Vara Lakshmi Vratham and Navarathri, I thought that you can stitch this easily with scrap cloth and make it so beautiful  to gift your friends and family.
Below is the step by step explanation of the procedure for stitching this bag.
This is the top material that I mentioned. I have taken approximately double the width of the required bag. I have taken 15inches length of cloth. 
This is white lining cloth of same dimensions. 

Now keeping the right side of cloth with wrong side of lining put a stitch along the width. 

Now turn the lining inside and put a stitch along the upper side of th bag. 
Then take the contrast colour band. Here I have taken the border of the top cloth. 
Now cut it into half and fold the edges inside and stitch. 

Then attach these bands on the basic cloth keeping right side of band facing right side of cloth. 

Fold the band towards the inside of the width of 1inch.
Then fold the bag into half and stitch along two sides. 
Now for the drawstring take a 2inch width cloth and fold to required width. 


Now cut this into half and insert through the fold from both sides. Fix the string either side by putting a knot. 
Your bag is ready. 
Hope my explanation was clear. If you have any doubts be free to ask. 
Thank you. 

This is a blue bag I stitched out of synthetic blouse piece. I decorated it with a silver colour lace. 

This is a maroon colour bag I stitched from a synthetic blouse piece. I used golden colour lace as draw string. 

Sunday, 9 July 2017

Satin Stitch



                                                                       Satin Stitch
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                             Satin stitch is one of my favourites.I guess it must be your favourite stitch too.It is liked by everyone not only because it is easy to do but also because it fills the design.It gives a rich look to the design.
             
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                                I have used two strands of anchor thread here.Usually I use only one thread.
                                    First step as in any other stitch is to fix the thread at the upper left side corner                                            of  the design.

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                               The next step is to pierce the needle from the bottom left corner to the starting                                         point.

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                                   This is how the first stitch will look once the needle is pulled out.


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                                     The next step is to make the second stitch close to the first.

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                                        Once a few stitches are done it will look like this .Care should be taken not                                          to leave any gap between stitches.

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                                              The completed motif will look like this. I have done this stitch in another                                               design below.
                  



Padded Satin Stitch
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                                                 As the name suggests the same fundamental Satin stitch is done in such away that it gives an uplifted image

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First a chain stitch is worked along the outline of the stitch.

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                                     Then the centre of the design is filled with running stitch togive a                                    base for the satin stitch which will be done in the next step.
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                                          Then two strands of thread are taken and a normal satin stitch is done                                       from the  chain  in one end of the design to the other.

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Care is taken to move the needle through the cloth.

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When we complete the motif it looks padded up and full.

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This is another example of padded satin stitch.

Step by Step Satin Stitch
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                               You must have guessed by the name itself that this stitch is done  step by step.All                                stitches are done step by step but here the design is separated in different steps.

                                     To complete the design we must complete one step at a time.We start from the            lowest step and move up as we finish one line.

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                          From the diagram above you can see that I have divided the apple in four different                           parts by drawing horizontal lines across the design.I started working on the lowest part.After filling I moved on  to the next.


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In the picture you can see that  I have finished three steps.

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Here is the finished apple.I divided the leaf also into three parts.

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Another motif with STEP BY STEP SATIN STITCH.

         This technique can be used to fill big sized designs which cannot be filled in one length.

Saturday, 8 July 2017

Button Patti


Today I stitched a neck pattern on this dress. First I stitched the lining cloth on the right side and turned it in. 

Taking the contrast colour cloth of the pant I first folded the raw edge and put a stitch along the edge. 

Then I kept it along the neck design and stitched with a gap of 1/2 a centimeter on the right side. 

Now flip the green colour piping cloth into the wrong side and stitch along the edge. 

For the buttons cut the piping into 2inch length pieces and fold into half. 

Stitch to fix the folded halves and keep under the neck edge and stitch by hand.

 On the other side fix the button by hand.

Now keep a small piece of cloth say of width 1 1/2inch  and length 4inches on the wrong side of the top and stitch along the inside of the piping edge  in such a way that the slit along the button Patti is sealed. 

Hope my description is helpful. Next time I will post pictures for clarity. 

Please ask if anything explained is not clear.I will try to clarify.

Friday, 7 July 2017

Decorative versions of Buttonhole stitch -2





                                                 Whipped Buttonhole Stitch
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This variety is done by weaving a contrast colour thread through an existing row of buttonhole stitches.

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As you can see first the normal buttonhole stitch is worked alog the line.Then a contrast coloured thread is taken and fixed at the start of the existing buttonhole stitch.

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Now as can be seen the needle is moved under the thread and pulled out.

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As we move along the line of stitches a neat web of contrast colour is spinned through the stitch.

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The point to be noted is that the needle moves over the cloth and does not pierce it.

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Care should be taken in selecting the contrast coloured threads so that the beauty of the stitch is visible to all.

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Once the design is complete we will realise that it is one of the easiest outline stitches which is not only simple but also beautiful.


Up and Down Buttonhole Stitch
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The name itself suggests how  the stitch is done.It is a very simple technique which I have illustrated below.

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To make the technique easy I have drawn two parallel lines .The first step as always is to fix the thread at a point on the upper line.Then just like a normal Buttonhole stitch insert the needle from the lower line to the upper line and keep the thread around the needle.

This is the up part of the stitch.

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Now for the second step pierce the needle on the upper line and bring it out  from the lower line.
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Now for the third step wind the thread around the needle.

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Pull the needle from the lower line.This is the down part of the stitch.

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Now for the fifth and most important part of the stitch  pull the thread in an upward direction that is towards the upper line .

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 Now to repeat the process--  1.Pierce the needle in the lower line and bring it out from the upper line.
2.Wind the thread around the needle.         
3.You get the up part of the stitch.              
                                               4.Pierce the needle in the upper line and bring it out from the lower line.
                                            5.Wind the thread around the needle and pull out the needle from the lower line.
6.This is the down  part of the stitch.         
7.Pull the thread towards the upper line.    
                          8. Here you have the Up and Down  Buttonhole Stitch.      
  
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Here I have used Up and Down Buttonhole stitch,Chain stitch,Detatched Chain,Satin stitch and Stem stitch in this design.


Buttonhole Honeycomb Stitch
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This is another variation of Buttonhole stitch which can be used for filling designs.

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I have illustrated the procedure in arectangle . First a row of normal buttonhole stitch is done on top .

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As you can see I have ende the line of stitches by taking the needle below the cloth.

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Now bring the needle up from a point below  the point of exit of previous stitch.

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Now move the needle through the second buttonhole stitch and pull it out.


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To make a new stitch on  the second line pierce the needle in the gap in between the second and third stitch of the first row of stitches.Then just as in normal Buttonhole stitch wind the thread around the needle and pull it out.

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This is how the first stitch will look.



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Now for the second stitch move the needle through the third stitch in first row.
Then make a normal Buttonhole stitch between the third and fourth stitch of the first row.

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As we continue this pattern,the first row will be completed.Now you will be in the left extreme of the design.    Follow the pattern from right to left.

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I have used the same procedure as explained above.The only difference is that i have given a Chain stitch outline to give the proper outline of the design. 

As we work the stitch it looks like a Honeycomb.Hence the name for the stitch.
The only difference between Honeycomb and Detatched  Buttonhole is that we move the needle through the cloth in the former ,which we do not in the latter.