Cross-stitch motifs can be adapted for use in Huck embroidery. There are a couple of loop stitches that can be employed for this purpose. Even elaborate patterns can be used.
Monday, June 19, 2006
Sunday, June 18, 2006
Huck Embroidery
My latest project is Huck embroidery. I have started embroidering a table cloth in this style. It might end up as a runner.
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I have 7 uncles on my mother’s side. But for 2 the rest were craft enthusiasts. One of them still is. She does a lot of Huck embroidery. Her son-in-law is an engineer in the army and they get free army issue toweling cloth (I don’t know why this fabric is called so, maybe they were originally issued to be used as towels) on which this style of embroidery is done. Every time she visits her daughter in Delhi, she gets together with the neighbors to embroider. The funny thing is my aunt speaks only Tamil or Telugu and her embroidery friends speak only Hindi. God knows how they manage to communicate. But she comes back with a lot of lovely patterns copied from somebody’s grandmother’s shopping bag or somebody’s mother-in-law’s tablecloth embroidered some 20 – 50 years ago. And every time I visit her, I have something new to add to my collection.
Over the years I have accumulated quite a few patterns myself, some from my own grandmother, some from my mother’s imagination, some others from my school days, some from the collections of my students’ mothers or mothers – in – law. I found it mostly done on shopping bags.
For those of you interested in pursuing this easy –to – do style, here is a free pattern link.
free pattern 1
For more information about Huck embroidery, try these links.
http://averyhill.com/Instructions/Instructions.html
http://averyhill.com/index.htm
While researching the subject this morning, I found this blog
Janet McCaffrey has posted some samples and the pictures are very clear.
Complete Guide to Needlework – A Reader’s Digest Publication has a chapter on this topic.
For a larger picture click here
I have 7 uncles on my mother’s side. But for 2 the rest were craft enthusiasts. One of them still is. She does a lot of Huck embroidery. Her son-in-law is an engineer in the army and they get free army issue toweling cloth (I don’t know why this fabric is called so, maybe they were originally issued to be used as towels) on which this style of embroidery is done. Every time she visits her daughter in Delhi, she gets together with the neighbors to embroider. The funny thing is my aunt speaks only Tamil or Telugu and her embroidery friends speak only Hindi. God knows how they manage to communicate. But she comes back with a lot of lovely patterns copied from somebody’s grandmother’s shopping bag or somebody’s mother-in-law’s tablecloth embroidered some 20 – 50 years ago. And every time I visit her, I have something new to add to my collection.
Over the years I have accumulated quite a few patterns myself, some from my own grandmother, some from my mother’s imagination, some others from my school days, some from the collections of my students’ mothers or mothers – in – law. I found it mostly done on shopping bags.
For those of you interested in pursuing this easy –to – do style, here is a free pattern link.
free pattern 1
For more information about Huck embroidery, try these links.
http://averyhill.com/Instructions/Instructions.html
http://averyhill.com/index.htm
While researching the subject this morning, I found this blog
Janet McCaffrey has posted some samples and the pictures are very clear.
Complete Guide to Needlework – A Reader’s Digest Publication has a chapter on this topic.
Thursday, June 15, 2006
Kutchwork Tutorial
Lesson IV
This motif is merely a build up of the Basic Single diamond.
This motif has as its foundation, the Double Herringbone Stitch - the working of which is illustrated in the picture. Just be sure to follow the same principles of overs and unders we established in the previous lessons.
This illustration shows how to turn once the end of the motif is reached. Notice that the second part of the Double Herringbone is worked from left to right as a continuation of the first part.
The Foundation of Double Herringbone completed.
Now The upper part is interlaced first
When you reach the end, turn and start interlacing the lower half.
The completed motif.
If you have understood these lessons, you create elabrote designs using these basic motifs. All you need is a graph notebook and some imagination. The possibilities are limitless. Have fun.
I'll come back to you on this topic as and when I come across different motifs.
Kutchwork – An Introduction
Lesson I Part I
Lesson I Part II
Lesson II Part I
Lesson II Part II
Lesson III
Lesson IV
This motif is merely a build up of the Basic Single diamond.
This motif has as its foundation, the Double Herringbone Stitch - the working of which is illustrated in the picture. Just be sure to follow the same principles of overs and unders we established in the previous lessons.
This illustration shows how to turn once the end of the motif is reached. Notice that the second part of the Double Herringbone is worked from left to right as a continuation of the first part.
The Foundation of Double Herringbone completed.
Now The upper part is interlaced first
When you reach the end, turn and start interlacing the lower half.
The completed motif.
If you have understood these lessons, you create elabrote designs using these basic motifs. All you need is a graph notebook and some imagination. The possibilities are limitless. Have fun.
I'll come back to you on this topic as and when I come across different motifs.
Kutchwork – An Introduction
Lesson I Part I
Lesson I Part II
Lesson II Part I
Lesson II Part II
Lesson III
Lesson IV
Saturday, June 10, 2006
This and That
It has been a hectic two weeks. A depressing time too … translate that to a friend’s husband has been transferred to another town.
They left last week and I miss their 11 month old baby.
Spending time with babies is a wonderful experience. Their innocence is refreshing. I can be myself with them. I enjoy other people’s babies so much maybe because I can always pass them back to the mothers when they get cranky or when they need a nappy change.
Anyway I miss this little guy. I feel a bit sad because the next time I see him (maybe in a couple of years) he won’t recognize me. One of the down sides of moving every three years are so.
My husband works for a public sector oil company and we move every three years or so. On the positive side I meet new people and make atleast one lifelong friend in every town or city.
On a more positive note, the kids are finally back in school. That means no more unmade beds, no more pillows lying all over the living room floor, no more empty water bottles rolling of the dining table in the breeze, or crunching under me on the sofa when I try to find a place to sit, no more filling water bottles by the dozen and last but not the least no more permanent kitchen duty feeding hungry chicks with permanently open mouths and permanently empty stomachs.
But no more late mornings and free lazy evenings either.
My younger son is now in class VI. That means more subjects Physics, chemistry, Botany and Zoology.
Yesterday I was trying to explain the concept of density. He was more interested in finding out when he could get out of learning Physics than listening to me. It was the same when I tried to explain the differences between substance and particles, atoms and molecules. Need I say that it was the same when I tried to explain the structures of different viruses in Botany?
I told he could get out of studying Maths or Biology after Class X. But if he wanted to get into Medicine or Engineering he had to study Physics and Chemistry. He appeared decidedly miserable.
They left last week and I miss their 11 month old baby.
Spending time with babies is a wonderful experience. Their innocence is refreshing. I can be myself with them. I enjoy other people’s babies so much maybe because I can always pass them back to the mothers when they get cranky or when they need a nappy change.
Anyway I miss this little guy. I feel a bit sad because the next time I see him (maybe in a couple of years) he won’t recognize me. One of the down sides of moving every three years are so.
My husband works for a public sector oil company and we move every three years or so. On the positive side I meet new people and make atleast one lifelong friend in every town or city.
On a more positive note, the kids are finally back in school. That means no more unmade beds, no more pillows lying all over the living room floor, no more empty water bottles rolling of the dining table in the breeze, or crunching under me on the sofa when I try to find a place to sit, no more filling water bottles by the dozen and last but not the least no more permanent kitchen duty feeding hungry chicks with permanently open mouths and permanently empty stomachs.
But no more late mornings and free lazy evenings either.
My younger son is now in class VI. That means more subjects Physics, chemistry, Botany and Zoology.
Yesterday I was trying to explain the concept of density. He was more interested in finding out when he could get out of learning Physics than listening to me. It was the same when I tried to explain the differences between substance and particles, atoms and molecules. Need I say that it was the same when I tried to explain the structures of different viruses in Botany?
I told he could get out of studying Maths or Biology after Class X. But if he wanted to get into Medicine or Engineering he had to study Physics and Chemistry. He appeared decidedly miserable.
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