My First Commercial Hand Embroidery

PLAY OF COLOURS

It has been an year since I had blogged and lots have happened in the past year. To highlight a few - I have moved back to Bangalore and my Kid is going to finish her preschool. I had done quite a few french beaded flowers, bags, embroidery on dress, wall art embroidery, handmade cards and some do it yourself toys for my kid and her friends which I plan to blog in the coming weeks and last but not the least had travelled quite a lot.

THE MANGO AND VINE

 
 The surprise came this year in the form of a friend who had seen my embroidery and had told her friend about it. I was asked to embroider a plain white kameez. This is the first time I ventured out comercially.

THE WHITE KAMEEZ

I choose a Mango on the vine motif for this dress. I just love mangos as it can be used in many variations. This design I picked from emblibrary.com - Keep it Simple. As the Kameez was white in colour I had a wide choice of colours and went for pinks and yellow which compliment each other. I positioned 3 Mango- Vine Motif on the lower portion and a part of the motif in the neck.

I worked with satin stitch on the mango in yellow colour and outlined it with dark pink chain stitch. The outer mango was in pink seed beads. The smaller flower parts were worked in shades of pink satin stitch. The circles inside the mango sandwitched between the pink coulours was in yellow satin
stitch. The vine was worked in yellow pink multishade tube beads.
 

THE NECK LINE

The Hand and Neck are worked in Pink Chain Stitch and Yellow Pink Multishade Tube Beads. The person just loved the work! Hope to do manymore of this kind till I start my Work.