Simple Kasuti Embroidery Motifs for Sarees & Kurtis | Free Pattern + Step-by-Step Tutorial

 Kasuti embroidery is one of the most traditional and intricate embroidery styles from Karnataka, India. Known for its delicate patterns made with straight stitches, it beautifully enhances sarees, kurtis, and dress materials with elegance and charm. The motifs are usually inspired by nature, temples, birds, and geometric shapes, making them timeless and graceful. In this post, I have provided simple Kasuti embroidery motifs that you can easily try on sarees and kurtis to add a touch of heritage and handcrafted beauty to your outfits.

I had the joy of creating this saree for a special client who found me online after seeing my embroidery works. We had a lovely discussion about the designs, the size of the motifs, and the overall look she wanted. Once everything was decided, I started working on the embroidery with a lot of excitement and completed it in 15 days. It was such a fulfilling experience to see the design come alive, knowing it was made just for her.

The saree was designed with a total of 15 big motifs, 20 small motifs, and 10 mini motifs. Each big motif took me nearly 50 minutes to complete, while the smaller ones took around 30 minutes each. The mini motifs were quicker, taking about 7 minutes each, yet they added a delicate charm to the overall design. Altogether, the embroidery took me around 20 hours to finish, with every stitch adding to the beauty and uniqueness of the saree.

Below are some images of the saree pallu and body.

To help you recreate this design at home, I’ve provided a free downloadable Kasuti embroidery pattern. You can use it as a guide for your own sarees or kurtis and practice the motifs at your own pace.

Link to download pattern

For a more visual guide, I’ve created a step-by-step Kasuti embroidery tutorial on YouTube. In the video, I demonstrate all the stitches, motifs, and techniques used in this project, making it easy for beginners to follow along.

YouTube Video Link

Hope you all like this design.  Kasuti embroidery is a beautiful traditional art form that anyone can try with a little patience and practice. I encourage you to explore these simple motifs and create your own embroidered sarees or kurtis. Don’t forget to subscribe to my YouTube channel for more embroidery tutorials, download the free pattern, and share your creations with me—I would love to see your work!

Long & Short Stitch Rose | beginner friendly Embroidery Tutorial | From Start to Finish

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Hope all are doing well and good.  Today I am very very happy to share with you an easy rose embroidery that uses long and short stitch.  A simple design to practice long and short stitch.  Perfect for embellishing clothes, home décor, or simply practicing your embroidery craft!

Video Tutorial below

I have used 3 shades of coral colour from anchor - no's 9,10,11 for the rose and 257 for the leaves and stems.  Use 3 strands of thread throughout the design.  

Pattern 

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I hope all of you like this design.  See you soon in another interesting design/ stitch tutorial.  Till then, have a nice day and have a happy time with your needle n thread.  

Ceylon Stitch - Video Tutorial, How to do ceylon stitch in hand embroidery

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Today I am happy to share with you the video tutorial for Ceylon stitch.  This is a traditional hand embroidery stitch, used for filling shapes likes leaves, petals, or any small motif.  It looks somewhat like a woven braid and gives a textured, raised effect.  The thread builds up in a braided overlapping pattern. This stitch can be used in a row to create a decorative braided border.

Video Tutorial 👇👇

Hope you find this tutorial useful.  Have a nice day and have a happy time with your needle n thread.

Kasuti Embroidered Purse

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Hope all are doing well and good.  Today I am happy to share with you an embroidered purse with a kasuti motif.  The purse is a plain one purchased from amazon.  The using the kasuti net I have embroidered this motif and then removed the net.  A beautiful kasuti embroidered purse is ready.  You can see the process in the video given below.  

Pattern for the design

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You can use this motif your sarees, cushion covers etc.  Hope you all like this design and purse.  See you soon with another interesting design.  Till then, have a nice day and have a happy time with your needle and thread.  

Satin Stitch Flower Embroidery design for beginners

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Hope all are doing well and good.  Today I am happy to share with you an easy and simple flower embroidery design that features satin stitch.  

Video Tutorial

Stitches Used

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Big flower - Satin stitch 

Small flowers on top &middle - straight stitches

Small flower on bottom right - Granitos stitch

Leaves Big - Raised Herringbone stitch

Leaves small - Long tailed Lazy daisy stitch

Hope all of you like this design.  See you soon with an embroidered purse.  Till then have a happy time with your needle and thread.  

Easy Kasuti embroidery design for sarees, kurtis, cushion covers, pillow covers & bed spreads

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Hope all are doing well and good.  Today I am very happy to share with you a simple kasuti embroidery design that can be used for dresses.  When used as a single design it can be used an all over butti for sarees and kurtis.  When worked continuously it forms a nice border.

I have worked this design using 3 strands of thread throughout.  

Video Tutorial 

Pattern for the design

I have drawn this design on an 8 lines / inch graph paper and transferred it to the fabric using carbon paper.  Do try this and let me know your feedbacks in the comments section.

Hope all of you like this design.  See you soon with another design. Till then have a nice day and have a happy time with your needle n thread. 

A to Z alphabet embroidery designs for Hand kercheifs / Rumal embroidery designs

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Hope all are doing well and good.  Today I am very very happy to share with you the complete set of floral alphabet embroidery design from A to Z.  Suitable to embroidery in hand kerchiefs.  The alphabets are embroidered using back stitch and for the flower part I have used different stitches.  You can refer the videos in channel.  I will be giving the links for the vidoes soon. All the videos for these designs are available as shorts in my Youtube channel. 

You can print this pattern in an A4 size paper.  For this size you can use 3 strands of embroidery thread.  

If you have downloaded the pattern please do drop in a comment in the comments section so that I can count the number of downloads.  This will encourage me to design more patterns for free. 

Hope all of you like this designs.  See you with another design.  Till then, have a nice day with your needle n thread.