Kamal Kadai stitch design

 Hi all

Hope all are doing well and good.  Today I am happy to share with you a simple embroidery flower design that uses kamal kadai stitch.  Very very simple and useful for beginners to give a try.

Video Tutorial

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Hope all of you like this design.  Will be back with another interesting tutorial.  Till then, have a nice day and happy emroidery.

Embroidery Design - Kamal Kadai Flower Stitch

 Hi all

Hope all are staying safe.  Today I am happy to share with you an embroidery design that uses the technique of weaving.  I have learnt this stitch as kamal kadai stitch.  But on the other hand woven trellis stitch also looks the same.  I have done some projects on kamal kadai years back.  You can see it here.  

Kamal kadai stitch uses straight stitches.  Then the straight stitches are weaved to form an woven effect.  I will be posting the tutorial for this stitch tomorrow.

Let us see the design today.

Pattern for the design

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Stitches Used:

Flowers - Kamal Kadai Stitch

Leaves - Fishbone stitch

Stem - Stem stitch

Centre of flowers - French Knots

Anchor Thread Numbers

Flowers - straight stitches - 292 (3 strands)

              - Weaving stitches - 332(3 strands)

Leaves - 225 (3 strands)

Centre of flowers - 290 ( 6 strands, 1 wrap)

Tomorrow I will be posting the tutorial for doing kamal kadai stitch.  Till then, have a nice day.  

Kamal Kadai Work kurti

It has been so long I have embroidered a kurti.  When I learned kamal kadai work i was addicted to it and tried it in simple plain cotton kurti and a chiffon saree.  This time I want to try the same work with flowers that have curved petals.  I worked the previous ones with pointed petals and with same color thread both for the foundation stitches and weaving.  This time i have tried with two colors and it came out really good.  

In this Project I have used Anchor embroidery thread. 

Stitches used:
     Stem stitch
     Fish bone stitch
     Pistil stitch
     French knots(in the sample piece)

Before going on to stitch it in the silk cotton i have tried a sample in a cotton cloth and the result is this.

Now moving on to the kurti

Hope all of you like.  waiting for your feedbacks.  Will meet u with another sample piece of embroidery.  Till then, have a happy time with your needle and thread.

yey..................Saree completed

Back in April I have started to embroider this saree and uff............ it is completed now.  I have blogged about the designs and the stitches before.  you can see it here and here. But today I am going to show u the completed saree.  I find difficulty in taking the photographs.  I don't know how to capture the complete pallu.  Since it is a chiffon material some wrinkles are here and there.  I have tried my best to capture the saree.  do have a look. 

I have used pearl cotton thread for the flowers and varieagated anchor cotton thread for the stems and the leaves. 

Now I am planning to do some simple embroidery in the blouse.  So do come back and watch my space.

Updated:

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The matching blouse for this saree is here.

Updated on 12/09/2015

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Kamal Kadai Flower

Long back I started to embroider a saree  and finished the three borders.  Now I am working on the pallu and the body part.  I used Kamal Kadai work for the flowers.  This is the design I have worked on the pallu part.  Center of the flower has to be embellished with sequins or beads.  I have a post regarding the border design here.

 

Since it is a plain chiffon saree the body part was very plain. So I decided to add sequins at regular intervals.  Then also it was not up to the mark.  Then I have made fly stitches around the sequin and it has taken the shape of a star and I am doing that star shape flower with sequin all over the body and that flower is here:

 

I am happy about the star shape and what about u?  I am planning to complete the saree within a week and I will be back with the completed saree in my coming post.  Till then, Happy embroidering.

Kamal Kadai work saree

Hello, my lovely readers.  Hope all of you might have a great week end.  In this post I am showing you a saree project which I have started a week back.

 

After learning Kamal Kadai work I have done a project on cotton kurti and it came up well.  From then I was wishing to do a kamal kadai project on a saree and the day came.  I have bought a plain chiffon saree and selected a portion of the design from the book Kamal work flower design(book No 19) of Mahila art centre.  I will give a review of the book some time later. 

 

Then the process of selecting the colors.  Uff........  with great difficulty I decided on doing the kamal kadai flowers with pearl cotton thread(Those threads were lying in my thread box idle for more than 6 months after purchasing) and it is easy to do that with pearl cotton thread.  Then for the stems and leaves part I have selected a variegated anchor cotton thread (no: 1335)  and I hope it looks good.  Waiting for your feedbacks.  Center of the flowers has to be embellished with some stones or sequins. 

 

 

 Now the close up of the flowers.  I have managed to do cretan stitch for leaves and for the stem I have done whipped running stitch because I have bored on doing stem stitch and chain stitch.  I like the wavy pattern of the stem.  What about u?

 

I have completed the border in the pallu.  In order to complete the saree without getting bored I have decided to do each day one pink and blue flowers and the stem and the leaves associated to it .  Hope I will be finishing this project within a month.  Let me see .  Till then, Happy Embroidering.

Kamal Kadai Kurti - update

I have reached the final stage of embroidering my kurti using kamal kadai technique.  I have fixed kundan stone inside the flower and the neckline is given using the simple chain stitch. 

Tomorrow I will update this post with the border design of the dress.  Today  I was not able to upload that picture b'coz the size of the file is  big.

Believe in yourself- in the power you have to control your life.

Kamal Kadai project - update

Immediately after learning the kamal kadai stitch I have started to work a project on kurti.  I have completed the neck portion of it.  Have a look at it. 

Also I have embroidered three motifs for the border.  Four more to complete. 
Once completed I will update it with the design.

Do not sit back and wait for things to happen, instead make them happen.

My first Kamal Kadai work

This is my first kamal kadai work.  I have learned this work from threadwithme.blogspot.com.  Thanks to Rajisaj for giving such a wonderful tutorial.  Those who want to learn this embroidery technique please follow this link:
http://www.threadwithme.blogspot.in/2012/01/kamal-kadai-work-tutorial.html