GBCW...... Final touch

                   

              Hurray its final post on GBCW,  earlier we did butterfly 1 & 2, tulip, grapes and creeper. Lets add some final touch to complete this project.

                Now for upper part of grapes ( half circle ), work ' Bullion knots' with 3 strands of thread, shade no 267.  And for stem of grapes, work two line of  ' chain stitch ' with 2 strands of thread, shade no 262.

Grapes

                      For tiny creepers on big creeper work ' Stem stitch ' with 3 strands of thread, shade no 267.

Creeper

                 
                  Work ' French knots ' around tiny creepers with single strand and two warps, shade no 307.

Creeper

                   

                   Work ' French knots ' for the circle on grapes leaf with 2 strands of thread, shade no 269.

Grapes

       
            Vow, we are done !!!!!  Are you ready to have a glance .......... Here you go...........

Grapes & Butterfly Crewel Work

           
                 
                     This project is intermediate, not too tough. That doesn't mean beginners can't try !!!!, even you can try once you learn all stitches worked in this project. Have a look, stitches used for this project,

                   1. Closed Buttonhole stitch.
                   2. Stem stitch.
                   3. Chain stitch.
                   4. French knots.
                   5. Trellis or Jacobean couching.
                   6. Triangle filling.
                   7. Satin stitch.
                   8. Raised stem stitch.
                   9. Fly stitch.
                 10. Laid work.
                 11. Bullion knots.
                 12. Herringbone.
                 13. Ribbed spider web.
                 14. Detached chain / laisy daisy.

Grapes & Butterfly Crewel Work 

                     List of thread, shade numbers ( Anchor threads )

         Greens :
             
                       246, 256, 262, 267, 269, 281, 393, 889.

         Brown:

                    355, 357, 358, 380.

         Blue:

                   170, 189, 1089.

         Orange:

                   304, 307, 326.

         Grey:

                   401.

          Peach:

                     10, 329.

           Purple:

                       871, 873.

Grapes & Butterfly Crewel Work

Grapes & Butterfly Crewel Work

           
                Hope you all enjoyed this project. Do leave a word, for any doubts and please do share your work. Happy Stitching.

GBCW..... Creeper

               We have almost reached finishing point, earlier we worked Butterfly 1 and 2,  Tulip,  Grapes. We shall move on work ' Creeper '.

                  Whole creeper is worked with ' chain stitch '.  Start working chain stitch from right side of creeper as shown in below picture. First line of chain stitch is worked with brown color with single strand, shade no 357. Second line of chain stitch is worked with 2 strands of thread, shade no 281 ( green ). With shade no 281 upper part of creeper curve  ( whole circle ) is worked using chain stitch. 

Creeper

                  Third line of chain stitch is worked with 2 strands of thread, shade no 267. Each line of chain stitch is worked very closely.

Creeper

                Fourth line of chain stitch is worked with 2 strands of thread, shade no 262. Observe below two pictures, fourth line of chain stitch, i stopped working fourth line of chain stitch at certain point as creeper tapers. Below two pictures shows where to stop and start again.

Creeper 

Creeper

                   Fifth line is worked with 2 strands of thread, shade no 393. Fifth line of chain stitch starts from left side of creeper.

Creeper

                Work two lines of chain stitch to the left side of creeper with shade no 393 as shown in below picture.

Creeper

            Work empty center area, left side area is filled with shade no 393 and right side area with shade no 262. Same way upper part of creeper also worked.

Creeper

                 Stem of Tulip is worked with 'stem stitch'. Start from center of tulip stem, center portion is worked with 2 strands of thread, shade no 355. Two lines of stem stitch is worked with shade no 355. Next with 2 strands of thread, shade no 358 work stem stitch on either side of first two stem stitch ( worked with shade no 355 ). Lastly with 2 strands of thread, shade no 380 work stem stitch on either side of previous stem stitch. If you want a little bit more broader tulip stem, then work one more stem stitch with shade no 380.

               

Tulip Stem

                 Next post we shall add finishing touch, final touch..... keep watching .

GBCW........ Grapes

                    Hi, we are almost getting there..... previous posts we worked on worked ' Butterfly 1 and 2, flower Tulip '. Now to move on, lets start working Grapes.

                     Grapes, each grape is worked with ' Ribbed spider web stitch and satin stitch '. Have a look at below picture, First mark guidelines to work ribbed spider web stitch. In each Grape, keep satin stitch area more than ribbed spider web stitch.

               ' Ribbed Spider Web stitch '  is worked with 3 strands of thread, shade no 873. 

Ribbed Spider web stitch

                      While working ribbed spider stitch, (whipping vertical lines ) always start from left side and end at right side for each line. After ending at right side don't start working next line from right to left because whipping will defer.
                   

Ribbed Spider web stitch

               To start working satin stitch, first outline outer area with stem stitch with 3 strands of thread, shade no 871 ( as shown in below picture ).

Satin stitch

               Now work satin stitch over stem stitch which gives raised effect. Both stem stitch and satin stitch is worked with 3 strands of thread, shade no 871. Once grapes done, outline each grape with stem stitch with 3 strands of thread, shade no 873.

Grapes

                           
                       Have a look at finished Grapes

Grapes & Butterfly Crewel Work

                                Moving on to Grapes leaf, we shall work ' Triangle Filling '.  Observe below picture, its just two diagonal lines and one horizontal line at each center of diamond, one straight stitch to hold all lines together at two diagonal lines intersecting point and also one horizontal line.

Triangle Filling

              Add guidelines, diagonal lines to work Triangle filling. Space between one diagonal line to another is 0.5 mm, half a centimeter.  First diagonal line worked with 3 strands of thread, shade no 889.

Triangle Filling

                 Second diagonal line is worked with 3 strands of thread, shade no 267.

Leaf filling

         Now the final one horizontal line is worked with 3 strands, shade no 307.  While working horizontal line pass needle under threads ( diagonal lines ) as shown in below picture.

Leaf filling

                       Now work straight stitch with 2 strands of thread, shade no 269, at each intersecting point.

Triangle filling

                Outline leaf with ' chain stitch ' and small overlap area is worked with ' herringbone stitch ' (right leaf) with 2 strands of thread, shade no 269.

Grapes

             Next post we shall work creeper. Happy stitching !!!!

GBCW.....Tulip

                        Last two post GBCW 1 and  2 , we worked on Butterfly. Now we shall work upper flower which i call ' Tulip '.

                   To work two lower leaf of tulip, first add guidelines at the center of  leaf as shown in below picture. Start working ' fly stitch '  with 3 strands of thread and shade no 889 ( olive green )

Add guidelines to leaf

Fly stitch 

Fly stitch

                  Lets concentrate on center portion of tulip, work ' satin stitch '  horizontally with 3 strands of thread, shade no 10 (peach color).

Tulip, satin stitch

                Now work ' chain stitch ' on outer part of leaf covering center bud with 2 strands of thread, shade no 246 ( dark green ).

Tulip covering leaf, chain stitch

                     Now again work second line of ' chain stitch ' around outer part of leaf with 2 strands of thread, shade no 267.

Second line of chain stitch 

           
                 Once again work third line of chain stitch around outer part of leaf with 2 strands of thread shade no 256 ( light green). So first line will be dark green, second line is medium green and third line is light green. Same way finish inner part of leaf, work three lines of chain stitch with three tones of green.

Third line of chain stitch

                 Have look at below picture, working of all three lines of chain stitch.

Tulip leaf

                      Work ' stem stitch ' to mark center vine of leaf with 3 strands of thread , shade no 304. Work ' Detached chain ' on either sides of vine and also on left leaf with 3 strands of thread, shade no 329.

Highlight tulip

Tulip

                 
                    Work ' Laid work ' for bud. Over satin stitch add diagonal lines as shown in below picture with 3 strands of thread, shade no 304. Also work ' satin stitch ' diagonally on left leaf ( which shows inner portion of leaf, tiny area ) with 3 strands of thread, shade no 889. Its a very small area, satin stitch is worked diagonally inwards direction.

Laid work on bud

                   Again work diagonal lines in opposite direction on bud as shown in below picture.    Work ' straight stitch ' at intersection of two diagonal lines with 2 strands of thread, shade no 246.

Laid work 

                 

                       Finish top of bud by working ' stem stitch ' with 2 strands of thread, shade no 329.

Finishing Tulip

                         Have a look at finished Tulip.

Tulip 

                      Keep stitching. Next post, we shall deal with Grapes.  

GBCW, more on Butterfly

  

                   First post on GBCW, we worked little bit on Butterfly center portion ( thorax and abdomen)  and wings. Moving on, i shall try to complete working Butterfly.

            

                Work  ' Closed Buttonhole '  on all four wings with light blue ( shade no 1089 ) using 2 strands of thread. 

Wings of Butterfly

                 
                     Firm ' French knot ' worked in between each square on lower wings with orange color ( shade no 326 ) using 2 strands of thread and 2 warps.

Butterfly

French knots on Butterfly wings

             
                       Outer part of wings outlined with ' Stem stitch '  with shade no 189 using single strand.

Outlining Butterfly wing

         
                    After working first line of stem stitch with shade no 189, again work second line of stem stitch with blue color ( shade no 1089 ) using single strand.

Second outline, Butterfly wing

                         Work ' Satin stitch '  on head of Butterfly with shade no 1089 using 2 strands of thread.

Satin stitch on Butterfly head

                   For antenna of Butterfly ' stem stitch ' is worked with orange ( shade no 326 ) using 2 strands of thread.  Eyes of Butterfly worked with ' french knots ' just below antenna with shade no 401 ( Grey), 2 strands of thread.

              Now for upper wings of  Butterfly work ' cross stitch ' with shade no 326 ( orange ), 2 strands of thread, worked only on two alternate rows.

Finished Butterfly

                 Happy stitching !!!  Next post on upper flower ' Tulip '