Ribbon Embroidery

Hi friends!

Its been long time. Well let me wish you a belated Happy New Year. 

Like every year, this year  I have made resolutions. Let us see how much I can implement them. 

Here is my ribbon work completed at last. I have used satin ribbons and threads or floss (cotton -stranded, pearl and silk  thread). The back ground is unbleached cotton fabric circular in shape.

This was my first attempt at ribbon work, one of my old projects started but not finished. it was difficult for me to stitch on the fabric as the fabric was very thick. But I have completed it at last. I took this up as a test project to learn the stitches and gain some experience before taking up silk ribbon embroidery. 

I wanted to use as many stitches as possible. This was one of my projects where I began without any planning or sketch and just went on adding the motifs, as I proceeded with my embroidery. I love this way as it gives me more freedom to be creative. 

Please do leave your comments and criticisms. I would like to know how I have done this.

Oh! by the way can any one tell me where to get Silk Ribbons for embroidery in India? I would be grateful if you can give me the address please.

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The Post Card Which was never posted...

Yes it is the post card which was never posted...:) :) :).....because it is unfinished.

Well I was going through my stash and projects yesterday thinking that I should organise my stash and also list out all my unfinished projects at various stages so that I can complete them.

This is what I found. A fabric post card.

There are many firsts with this post card. 

My first crazy quilting. 
My first fabric post card.
My first Needle weaving.
My first Silk Ribbon Embroidery.

I have always wanted to do some crazy quilting. But it is always very hot in the place where I live. Winters are pleasant not too cold and summers very hot. So what is the use of a quilt? 

I also wanted to do a fabric post card for a long time. But never attempted.

That's why I chose to do a crazy quilted fabric post card.

The fabric used for this is Jute. I had some scraps of jute cloth in various colours. So I used them. I used a very simple pattern for the crazy quilting as I don't have much expertise nor confidence in that area. I covered the seems with lace. Then I stitched the beads, flower shaped sequins and beads. It is not clear from the pic but the dark green long leaves have been worked out in needle weaving. The thread used for this is Neem zari thread. That is silk thread with a glitter(zari) or golden thread.

On the other side I attempted some SRE flowers, for the first time. They came out well. On the orange coloured strip I embroidered some vines with Feather Stitch,  French Knots, and Detached Chain for leaves.

But I was some how not satisfied. There was still some blank space left over my sequin flowers. I wanted to add a butterfly and not something ordinary. So I tried a beaded 3D butterfly. My first attempt so not very neat. But with this attempt I knew what to do and what not to do...

I backed the piece with unbleached soft cotton . Then I wanted to make it into a post card. But there was some error in measuring and cutting of the fabric. So it came out much smaller than it should be. I just left it like that for my album. Well I will try out a few now that I have some time on my hands. Let us see....

Well just when I was recollecting all my experiments with this project, my friends walked in. They admired it from all angles and certified it to be a brilliant piece. Hmmm....I don't think so. As a perfectionist that I am, I can see that I made many mistakes that I could have done with out. But for a first timer it was OK I guess. What do you say?

Oh, by the way I will be posting the tutorial for the Butterfly shortly...

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