Showing posts with label Stash. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stash. Show all posts

Monday, February 17, 2014

Celebrating Spring Season

Now that I have taken up my hobbies quite seriously, I am completing all pending projects one at a time. You will see my finished works here on my blog.

Spring is around the corner. Mother Nature will be at her colourful best. So I am celebrating Spring season adding more colour to my life and enjoying it.

Well here have a look at the new additions to my stash:
 Some reds, oranges and peaches
 Some pinks and lilacs
 Some variegated threads of different colours
Some blacks, whites and blues...

These 6 strand cotton threads. 

Now that I am going to do more and more embroidery and other crafts and have also taken up teaching them, I am preparing for it....

So keep an eye on my blog for more....


Saturday, May 4, 2013

Organising my Stash-2

Hmm ...Here is my stash of beads stored in plastic boxes. It took me four boxes-one 35 celled one, one 24 celled one and two 18 celled ones.
Various sizes and colours-metallic, double colouredto multi coloured. 
 Reds, oranges, greens, yellows...
 Blues, pinks....
 Metallic beads in the bottom row
Double coloured seed beads-blue and pink...
 Ceramic, wooden, metallic, glass, sea shells, cowrie...
 Wooden, metallic, seashells, cowries...
 Ceramic and multicoloured ones....
Love these pumpkin shaped ones.....

Still I am not satisfied and may re organise these boxes when I have more time.....

More in my next posts......


Sunday, March 11, 2012

New Additions

These are the new additions to my stash:


These are Knitting Cotton thread balls. There were so many colours to choose from, single as well as shaded. But these are costly because of the bigger size of the balls i.e. more quantity. But the thread as such is not fine when compared to that of branded ones. Any way these days it is difficult to get any threads or yarns for embroidery here. Kundan, zardosi and such types are works are in fashion now.

I wanted to add some variety to my stash of yarns. So I ended up buying these and going above my budget limit. But these will last for a long time and I may not get the opportunity or chance to buy these again.



Saturday, October 3, 2009

My Stash

I have this desire to learn something new every day, experiment with different media and create something new. Though I am a working person juggling between my home and work is really something, like walking on the rope-a balance act. However, at the end of the day before  I go to bed, there are two things I have to do. One read at least a page-I just love books and two at least go through one of my craft books and plan some creation. But actually creating some thing new is something altogether different. I don't have time. So at week ends and holidays I do try to attempt  my craft projects. But again I have so many unfinished ones lying with me.
Oh, when ever I visit the Bazaar, I just go through the craft shops and try to find out the latest craze. I also interact with the ladies who visit these shops and min you many a time I learned so many new crafts of techniques that way.
But every time I visit these craft shops, I am tempted to buy something. Now, I have ended up buying these things, thinking that I will use them sometime to create something beautiful and boy I have so much stash that storing them has become a real headache. My family teases me by saying that you have more stock than those shops. So now that I am a bit free I will pull out all these and experiment and also finish of at least some of my pending projects abandoned at various stages. Of course I will share all of them with you...
These are the silk threads in such beautiful colours, I just could not resist picking up whole lot of them and that too at reasonable prices since it was a whole sale selling point.Wouldn't you be tempted?
These are the beautiful blues...
The bight yellows and oranges...
Peaches and pinks...
After that I just could not resist purples, lavenders, greens and of course turquoise, and then whites, creams, black and browns....So I have this whole lot of lovely shades of silk threads...Well  I promised you some tutorials /posts on Indian Embroidery techniques...See how I use them...
These are of course tatting threads. At one time I did not know how to do tatting. In my teens I was fascinated by this art. One my friends knew it, but in spite of  a lot of begging she refused to teach me; knowledge is power. But that made me more determined to learn it. In those days Internet was not so very popular or reachable. So, I had to struggle to get the right reading materials, which is difficult In India, and then to read and understand the basics.
But then, hard work always pays off. I am self taught and today can do any motif or lace. But its a bit time consuming, so don't indulge in it much except when someone asks me for some motifs or laces. I will share with you some of my tatting .
These are kundans, all shiny like the real stones and gems and are the latest fad now...
Here are some more threads....

These are the pearl cotton threads, in single an double shades. I had to move heaven and earth for just finding where they were being sold. These days no one is using them here. But I wanted them for learning Brazilian embroidery, as we dont get Rayon threads here. But at last I found a shop where they were selling these and ended up buying most of the colours. You can see my BE sampler shortly....

These below are known as kora,  a type of hollow long springs which are used in Zardosi embroidery. I have many colours including the standard gold or silver and many varieties also. I will  write on them, where I will discuss in depth.

These are the knitting threads. One day I was just browsing through our old market and in a very small dusty shop I just enquired about pearl threads though not hopefully. The shop owner did not know what they were and placed before me some boxes containing these threads as well as pearl threads. Since the colours were so beautiful,I bought some just to practice my stitches and see how they work out with different weights of threads.
So keep watching my blog to know about my experiments...the count down starts now...