Kantha Embroidery Design 3

 Hi all

Hope all are staying safe.  In kantha embroidery series I have posted two designs already. 

Kantha embroidery design 1

Kantha embroidery design 2

Today's design is based on kantha butti the next stitch. How to work kantha Butti? can be found in this link.  I have worked the design on black colour silk cotton fabric. Lets see the design .

Pattern for the design

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I have used 3 strands of anchor embroidery threads all over the design.  

Pink - No.63

Cream - No. 926

The design will look better if all the star buttis are worked in cream colour. 

Star butti is simple straight stitches that emerges in the centre.  You can refer the stitch tutorials in the following links

Kantha Butti

Jod Stitch

My amazon picks for kantha embroidery dresses

 

How to work Kantha Butti?/ Kantha Embroidery Motif - Kantha Butti

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Hope all are staying safe.  In April I have posted a kantha embroidery design based on Jod Stitch, Dhaneer Sheesh stitch and another one using Herringbone stitch, Dhaneer Sheesh stitch.  

Today We will learn another pattern used in kantha embroidery.  It is called Kantha Butti.  When we want to embroidery tiny triangular floral motifs this stitch is used.  It is used as spray all over the design.   When the stitch is worked closely in circle, it will produce a woven effect.  It looks like satin stitch. 

 

First we will see how to work the butti in the left.  It should be worked from the outer corner of any petal.

Start from the point 1.  Bring the needle up at point 1 and insert at point 2.  Again bring the needle up at 3 and then insert at 4.  Continue to work like this following the numbers in the clockwise manner till 16.  One row is completed.

For the second row bring the needle very close and below the point 1 and work in the same manner as of row 1.

Work the stitches very close to each other.  Take care it should not overlap each other.  

The circle at the centre is worked with straight stitches from the top or you can go for herringbone stitch. 

 

 

This stitch when worked with different shades of the same colour gives a beautiful effect.  Use dark, medium and light shades of the same thread from the top of the petal as shown in the following closed butti.

 

Hope this tutorial helps you to learn kantha butti.  Design with this stitch will be posted soon. Till then have a happy time with needle and thread.

Kantha Embroidery Design 2 - Herringbone stitch, Dhaneer Sheesh

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Hope all are doing great.  Yesterday I have posted a kantha embroidery design and hope all of you like it.  Today I am happy to share with you another kantha embroidery design that uses herringbone stitch and Dhaneer stitch in triangles.  

Pattern for the design

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The whole design is worked with three strands of thread.  The triangles and the circles are worked in Dhaneer Sheesh Stitch.  The petals between the circles are worked in Herringbone stitch.  I will post the herringbone stitch tutorial tomorrow.  

Hope all of you like this design.  On Monday I will come up with another embroidery design.  Till then, have a nice time with needle and thread

Kantha Embroidery Design 1 - Jod Stitch, Dhaneer Sheesh Stitch

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Hope all are doing well and good.  Yesterday I have shared one of the embroidered saree which I have bought recently.  It is embroidered using kantha embroidery.  Kantha embroidery uses running stitch, herringbone stitch.  Though the stitches are simple the design and the colors makes it rich.

In 2015 I have learned kantha embroidery as a part of SAL from Anita.  Thanks to her.  You can view that design here.

  I have save some pictures in my pinterest board and inspired by those pictures I have come up with this paisley design which is very easy to stitch.  This design can be used as a border or the paisley motif alone can be used as buttas all over the dress. 

Pattern for the design

In this design running stitch is used.  According to the design and working it has got different names.  I have showed the drawings for working these stitches as it is easily understandable from the picture. 

 

JOD STITCH

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I have used it as a border in the above design.  Three lines of running stitches are made in the design.  We can make any number of lines.  It is used particularly for borders.  All the stitches should be equal in size and the distance between each stitch should be the same.  The stitches in each lines be parallel to each other. 

Start from 1 and insert it at 2.  First stitch is made.  Then between 3 and 4 the second stitch should be made.  Follow the numbers and the running stitches should be made.  The gap between the first and second row of stitches should be as small as possible. 

DHANEER SHEESH STITCH

Again this is same as above stitch, instead the running stitches are made to fill in a particular space say, line of rectangular blocks or line of triangle.  The same stitch can also be used to fill in a line of circles also. 

The following pictures shows how I have worked the above design.

Hope all of you like this design.  Tomorrow I will come up with another design in kantha embroidery that uses dhaneer sheesh stitch as filling triangles and another simple stitch used in kantha embroidery.  

Have a nice time with your needle and thread. 

Kantha Embroidery Saree

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Hope all of you are doing well.  I love to do embroider my own sarees.  But it will take quite a lot of time.  During the beginning of my embroidery journey I embroidered some sarees.

You can view them in the following links

Kamal Kadai Saree

Kutch work saree

Pachis Work saree

Now I am embroidering a kasuti work saree and 3/4th of the embroidery completed.  Soon I will show it.  Seeing the time it takes recently I started to buy embroidered sarees If I find it during any shopping.  I've got two kantha embroidery sarees and a chikankari saree.  One by one I will show it here. 

Today's saree is raw silk dark blue colour saree.  It's very light weight and I like the thread colours used.  Three big motifs and small butta size motifs are all around.  3/4th of the border is embroidered. 

Three such big motifs are there in the pallu portion.  Running stitch and herringbone stitches are used.

This is the border design and the small buttas. 

Whole pallu portion.

Kantha embroidery basically uses running stitch.  But it creates beautiful stitch patterns.  I will try to post some kantha embroidery stitch designs. 

Hope all of you like this saree.  I will come up with another post tomorrow.  Till then have a nice time with your needle and thread. 

Kantha Embroidery motifs

Few months back I have participated in the Kantha embroidery SAL of Anita of artistic fingers.  And today I am here to show you the motif which I have embroidered during that SAL.  I am not satisfied with the color of the threads and the stitching of the bird portion(bottom).  But I am happy that I have learned some basics in Kantha embroidery.  Click on the image to get more closer view.

KANTHA EMBROIDERY MOTIF - 1

Some closeups.

HERE you can see how beautifully Anita had stitched the body of the bird.  I should try it again.

Thanks Anita for the wonderful SAL. 

KANTHA EMBROIDERY MOTIF - 2

This pattern is from Mridulas embroidery school.  Thanks to Mridulas.   I am planning to make a cushion cover out of these motifs.  Let me see how it works out.   Till then, Have a happy time with your needle and thread.