Tatted Collar

               Hi, i am back with one more tatting project, its a " Tatted Collar ". I always had a preconceived notion earlier, that tatting is difficult, ' i can't do it '. From this year i started to learn tatting and now i am addicted to it. Before starting this project, I doubted should i start ? Will i able to complete ?. I simply got drooled with this pattern which made me go go........ you can do it or you should do it !!!!.

                 

               This pattern is from " Madura Coats Anchor Needle and Thread Magazine ", Vol 6. No 2.

This tatted collar is been tatted with Anchor tatting thread, tkt 40. 

Tatted Collar

Tatted Collar

Tatted Collar

                  I blocked this project with mild starch powder spray making it fall in shape.  Happy Tatting !!!!! 

Tatting

            Hello there, my new passion, its " TATTING". Few months back one of my friend gave me tatting shuttle, showed basic double knot. Well thats how i started, although long back when i was in my school days my Mother's friend tried to teach me tatting, but then i was not so interested. Today i am happy to share some of my basic tatted motif arranged on a black kurta.

                      My first little project is this cute little butterfly in yellow ocher.

Tatting

Tatting

Tatted flowers on Black Kurta

Tatted flowers on Black Kurta

Potli Bag

                  Hi everyone, i am back with a "Potli Bag". Fabric for this bag is black silk khadi, its a shirting material. With that i used few golden lace, beads to enhance, silk dori . Hope you all enjoy watching this bag.

Chikankari Kurta with Hathkati Jali

                  Hi, i am back with one more chikankari stitch. The most beautiful part of chikankari is its Jali work ( open work ). And very often confused with Drawn thread. Jali work is nothing but "Pulled thread work " where warp and weft threads are teased apart to make small holes which are held together with minute stitches. Jali work are inspired by old buildings window specially from Jaipur.

Chikankari Kurta with Hathkati

         
              Its a white kurta with simple motif, a circle worked with three different ways using chikankari stitches.  First the left circle, center portion Phanda stitch encircled with two lines of keel stitch. Second circle, again center portion with Phanda stitch encircled with Hathkati jali, encircled with keel. Third the last circle worked with Hool stitch ( eyelet) encircled with Kaj ( Buttonhole) and later with keel stitch ( Roman/Romanian).

Hathkati Jali work

                     Hathkati jali is a row of square holes specially worked on boarder, center of flowers, veins of a leaf.

Chikankari kurta

         
              Hathkati jali, to work this form of jali you will need a strong and long needle and a regular sewing thread preferably same color of fabric. Hathkati jali is said to be " Point de Paris " stitch. Draw two lines horizontally one after the other, start working from right side of upper line, tease apart ( two lines, parallel) fabric vertically as shown in picture 3, its approximately 4 to 5 threads as seen in picture 4. Now warp these four thread together tightly working from up to down. Come up, now see picture 8, start working next column same way. Teasing fabric, proper tension and holding with minute stitches is important aspect of Hathkati jali.

Hathkati stitch

Hathkati Jali

               
                   Happy Stitching !!!!