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.

Green Ribbon Bracelet

Beautiful Bead Braclet can be done in any combination

This sequence creates a chain with Double Diamonds between even loops. Can be made into a BELT.. BRACELET... or a CHOKER. This design is from the book "Getting Started with Seed Beads by Dustin Wedekind". This book has some wonderful designs which can be worked in an afternoon. I had not used the beads specified in this book even then it turned out quite impressive and my Daughter helped me a lot by just picking up the beads for me.

Materials:

• Size 8 Brass(A) and Blue(B) seed Beads - I have used a smaller size brass bead and Green Crystal.
• Size 11 Blue Green Beads(C) and Green (D) Beads.
• Size 15 Brass(F) seed bead.
• Beading needle and Thread.

1. Using 6' of thread to string 1A, 5C,1B,5C,1B,5C and 1A, leaving a 4" tail. String 7,1A,5C: pass back through the last 1B. String 5C, 1B,and 3C; pass back through the first 1A and tie a Knot with the tail thread.
2. Bottom Loop : String 7D, 1A, and 5C; pass back through the last 1B. String 5C, 1B, and 5C; pass it back through the top 1A.
3. Top Loop: String 7D, 1A, and 5 C; pass back through the last 1B. String 5 C, 1B and 5C; pass it back through he bottom 1A.
4. Continue working Top and Bottom Loops for the desired Length.
5. To reinforce the edges straighten the ribbon, pass back through 7D string 1E and then pass back through the next 7D.

I made it into a bracelet by working on the same and inserting it through the first diamonds