Embroidery Design - Herringbone Stitch

 Hi all,

I am here to share with you all the next embroidery design.  A simple and easy stitch. A stitch for beginners.  It fills up a space very quickly.  Also it works up for flower petals and leaves too.  

All the three flowers and its centre are worked in herringbone stitch, the stems are stitched in stem stitch and circles are stitched using satin st. 

PATTERN FOR THE DESIGN

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Stitches Used
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Flowers  - Heringbone stitch
Centre of flowers - Herringbone stitch
Stem - Stem stitch
Circles - Satin stitch

Threads Used - Anchor Embroidery threads(all stitches uses 3 strands of thread)

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Yellow - 298

Orange - 925

Bright Red - 335

stem - 267

Circles - 295, 298

Hope all of you like this design.  Do give a try and let me know.  In my next post I will come up with a neck design of a kurti.  Till then, Happy embroidering. 

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

Granitos Stitch, Blanket stitch, Satin stitch, Stem stitch

This design has been taken from www.coatsandclark.com.  flower is done using blanket stitch.   Buds inside the flower is done using satin stitch.  Buds outside the flower is done using  granitos stitch.  I have learned this stitch from stitchschool.com.  The tutorial for this stitch is given below:

http://stitchschool.blogspot.com/2010/01/granitos.html

I am making a table cloth using this design as corner for all the sides.  The work is in progress.