Smocked Frock

                  Well, this is my very first smocked frock. To block smocked fabric accurately is bit difficult and tricky for beginner like me.

Smocked Frock

                      For waistline belt, i smocked crossover wave stitch, half wave stitch, cable stitch and alternating cable stitch.

                       

Waistline

 

                    For waistline belt i also used pyramid cable stitch. For whole body part , smocking is done using six step Trellis stitch. Trellis stitch is worked in diamond pattern and also crossover technique is used with two different colors red and green.   

                           

Smocked fabric before removing pleating thread

                                      

Smocked Frock

Kutch Work Pyramid

   One more kutch work tutorial, i call this design as " Pyramid ".  This one is done using Herringbone stitch.

Pyramid Kutch work

                   Transfer the design on fabric. You can get design here. Adjust design size according to your requirement.

Pyramid Kutch design

                     Following below instruction chart, start with base stitch at point 1. Here in pyramid design both base stitch and filling stitch is worked in 2 parts. Areas highlighted with green and pink color comes under part 2 of base and filling stitch. Numbering and lines shows path to be followed and orange arrow mark shows intersection of two lines where needle should pass under the thread.

Pyramid kutch instruction chart

                Commence at point 1 as shown in below picture.

Pyramid kutch base stitch

               Follow below two collages, try to complete base stitch.

1 Pyramid kutch base stitch

2 Pyramid kutch base stitch 

                       
                       Part 1 base stitch is worked with light brown color thread and part 2 base stitch is worked with dark brown color thread.

                      In above collage, last four pictures shows part 2 base stitch, observe carefully and work. Starts at point 'a' and ends at 'h'. Work in same manner with rest of left part of base stitch design.

Pyramid kutch base stitch

Finished base stitch, Pyramid kutch

                  Once done with base stitch, lets start with filling part of pyramid design.

Filling of pyramid kutch

                   
                     Start at point 1 as shown in above picture. Follow below three collage and complete filling part of pyramid design.

1 Filling of pyramid kutch

2 Filling of pyramid kutch

                            Observe in below collage, from third picture, Part 2 of filling stitch instruction is shown.
Observe below pictures and complete with part 2 filling of pyramid design.

3 Filling of pyramid kutch

Pyramid Kutch Work

             

                         Application of this design, as you can see its obvious to be used as borders, or work single pyramid as motifs. Or work two pyramids, its base facing each other, giving effect of diamond. Or work two pyramids, top of pyramid facing each other creating a new design. Hope you all enjoyed this tutorial, if so drop a line and share your opinion. 

Kutch work / Interlaced Herringbone 2

Kutch work / Interlaced Herringbone , we learnt base stitch. Lets start with filling part in this post.

           

Kutch work, filling stitch

                         Start at point 1 ( a little bit right side) as shown in above picture. Follow below three collage and complete with filling part.

1. Filling stitch

                      

2. Filling stitch

3. Filling stitch

Finishing of filling stitch

                 While ending filling stitch, end exactly at starting point where we started.

Kutch work / Interlaced Herringbone

                  

                         Since this design is quite big one, it can be worked on bedspreads, cushion sets, saree etc. So in this method i use six strands of threads, both for base stitch and filling part.

Tip:  while using six strands of threads, separate each strand and then re-Aline together and work. This gives fullness or filled look to the design.

While taking printout of this design , it should fit in A4 size paper length wise / vertically Or according your project wise adjust size of design. 

Some work, start this design from left hand side, as we did in this tutorial ( both base stitch and filling ) and some prefer to work from right hand side. Its believed that working from right hand side is easier. Try your style.  Well i prefer working from left hand side. Happy stitching !!!!!!

Kutch work / Interlaced Herringbone

                       In my earlier post, i talked about kutch work using herringbone stitch as base stitch. Well today lets learn this method of kutch work.

Kutch work using Herringbone stitch

                     First trace design on fabric as shown in below picture. Download PDF of this design.

Kutch work design

                   Now start at point 1. Follow instruction chart (PDF design), Numbering and lines suggest the path to be followed and arrow mark (orange colour) shows intersection of two threads where needle should pass under thread. Always know golden rule of kutch work .

Kutch work

                        Follow instruction chart and below collage to complete base stitch

Kutch work 1

Kutch work 2

                     Note : Below collage, first picture, observe last three diamonds, the middle diamond, please rectify this mistake while working, here i have passed needle under thread where as its left and right diamond is correctly done.!!!!!!!!!!

Kutch work 3

Kutch work 4

kutch work 5

Complete base stitch

                 Click on the image for better view, closely observe "complete base stitch" picture and check correctness of base stitch by applying golden rule of kutch work.


                           If you observe backside of fabric, pattern is exactly like the design we traced in front of fabric. This shows the correctness of worked base stitch using herringbone stitch.

Backside of Fabric

                 For filling stitch tutorial check part 2 of kutch work / Interlaced herringbone.