Hi, its been quite long time blogging !!! Well here is my first " Stitch Along on Grapes and Butterfly Crewel Work (GBCW) " . I have tried to keep it simple, hope you all enjoy working it !!!
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| Grapes and Butterfly Crewel work |
You can get this pattern here "
Grapes and Butterfly Crewel work ".
Fabric, Needle and Thread :
For this project i have used ' Kora ' fabric, you can use any cotton cloth with fine weaving or linen. Threads are Anchor threads and crewel needle 8 or 9 is suitable.
Lets begin working butterfly. The center portion of Butterfly is worked with
' raised stem stitch ' , its blue color - no 170 ( anchor threads ). Both base stitch ( horizontal line) and stem stitch is worked using 3 strands of anchor thread ( shade no 170 ).
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| Working center portion of Butterfly |
Before working wings of Butterfly, add guild lines to work
' Trellis stitch or Jacobean couching '
Spacing between parallel lines is less than half centimeter or 4mm.
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| Add guild lines to wings |
Work horizontal and vertical lines over the wings of Butterfly using shade no 189 and 3 strands of thread.
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| Wing of Butterfly |
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| Wing of Butterfly |
Work cross stitch on intersecting points ( horizontal and vertical lines ).
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| Butterfly Crewel work |
Cross stitch is worked with shade no 401 (grey color) with 2 strands of thread.
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| Butterfly Crewel work |
Have a look at ' Trellis stitch or Jacobean couching ' on wings of Butterfly.
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| Tent stitch on Butterfly wings |
Keep watching, more to come on '
Butterfly ' !!! Happy stitching.
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