Friday 12 October 2012

Pink her favroite

Here is one of the recent one I did in cotton with nice pink flowers for my Daughter .

A simple cotton dress for day wear .

 

Tuesday 14 August 2012

Mobile Covers

It was Summer vacations at Indore (MP) at my inlaws place . My SIL and me were getting bored , so decided to use our time by making mobile  covers . So one day on a hot day after lunch started off to get raw materials ...after some hunt and lot of sun tanning came back home exhusted .

Any ways next day our project started and here is the out come .

Anushka ( sister in law's daughter) took the pics for us .









They are not great , but kept us occupied for 2 days . Lot of raw material still left and I promised myself that I will make a few more after coming back home from summer vacations ...but that day hasn't come yet :)

Wednesday 11 April 2012

Umbrella short frock with Blue net .

Saw this beautiful lace on a usual visit to dress material store and just got it thinking will use it somehow and here is a dress for her .
This dress has 2 layers , upper short layer and then a long one .





She was tired of posing for me , so her Lehanga that I made is ready but pics I will have to upload later may be in a day or two.

Black and white dress.

The other day we went to Izna's birthday party she was wearing such a cute dress , and that was the inspiration for this dress for Shuchi .
The bodies is done using a sequenced black cloth , the lining is done puffed with a net over that is black satin and over that is a white net , embellished with some flowers and ribbons . red goes so well with black as well as with white . I wanted to get a pic of back of dress , but Shuchi was exhausted and was not ready to give back shot .
Adding red is giving that Zing to the dress . dress is still incomplete :) , I have to put red beads around the upper bodice in the front and that would balnce the red all over and complete the dress .


thats the back !!

At the party

Saturday 25 February 2012

Shubh In Fabric

I feel very Happy , Satisfied every time I look at a quilt I made for my Son " Shubh "

This one was also inspired watching " Simply Quilts" ..they made a face ...it looked Beautiful and a wonderful , amazing work of Art . It was as if it is the real picture not something made with pieces of fabric .

It was sooo beautiful that I felt strongly this one I have to do it for my Son ..who was just 2 years old then in 2006.

So the project started first by looking for a deal to buy the book recomended on the show
First  Faces and Places by Charlotte Warr Anderson   and the second one" Picture piecing " by Cynthia England . Got the first one on ebay for $95  closed the brower thinking the book is very costly. For next few nights I could not sleep kept thinking of the project and the book , when my husband asked what's the matter I told him about my project and the book being very costly ...without even asking the price of the book , He said if you really want to make it properly then you will have to buy the book .
It took 2 days for the book to arive and then I started on a project which took me almost 2 and 1/2 months to complete . First read the book understood how it is done. A few trips to Kinko's to get print out of picture used in various shades to properly get and differentiate the various shades of skin .After more than 2 months what came out was this ...........



The whole Body is done overlapping the pieces of fabric on a light box joined together with tiny Hand stitches .
I made the shirt on lower border with a piece from his old pants ...Also the Dolphin on the border.
The Pocket on which the picture I made into Quilt is from one of his pants .
And finally his hand print on upper left corner .

I never felt so satisfied with my own work .
I cherish this one as one of my accomplishments :)

Dolphin Quilt


Dolphin

If you see it is same block ...just that the three blocks used are rotated in a different manner and the background is made such that it feels as if the Dolphin is leaping out of water to go back again !!

I used Foundation piecing technique for this quilt and specially went to Mary  Jo's ( A shop with all kinds of amazing clothes you can think of  )in Gastonia  South Carolina  to get that "Sea " , " Clouds " and the fabric with fishes on it ,to give it a realistic effect .
Now that we have moved to India , I miss that shop in Gastonia . I just enjoyed being in that shop looking at most beautiful fabrics .
This is one of my favourites Wall quilts.



3 Dimensional Flower Quilts

I just Loved the way these Wall Quilts turned up ....wish I made a few more then .
Its difficult to find time to do these time consuming quilts now .











 




Quilting added so much more to the look ....they looked Beautiful ..Now hanging at my Mother's Living Room.


Graphical Quilts

Lot of Quilts I made just to see how the final pc would look like ...I would make a graphical block with lines and when I join it a whole new look would emerge ...

You will understand what I want to say when you look at them ...


1





2  Pineapple Block




3





My First Quilt "Mariner's Compass"

This is my very First Quilt in 2002 ...I was facinated my Quilt Show "Simply Quilts " aired on HGTV then ..they stopped  later

Everybody apprecited the Quilt soo much , it motivated me to make many more after that ...


My Quilts Made as Gifts for Kids

I don't have a count of Quilts I made ...some were used at home ..some were given as gifts to my friends kids ...
I could find a few while looking at old pics...
Most of my Quilts were made in Charlotte NC USA ..we spent a beautiful time there and have lot of memories associated with the place .


This Quilt was done for Aarushi ..my Sisters Daughter when she was 1 ..now she is 10


 For My sister in laws daughter Mahek when she was 1 ...


For Vijeta's Daughter Vani with their Pictures on the Quilt ...


For Sujaya's Daughter Anushka on her First Birthday ...


For Suman's Son Saahil





For Manisha's Twins Nilay and Tanay



There are few more , I have to dig in my old pics ..and then will soon add them here .




Baby Shuchi

I loved the fabric at Hobby Lobby ...so picked it for her dress ....


You won't beleive this one was a bed sheet :) It was new single Bedsheet and I had no use of it and it was soft cotton ..Also liked the kitty on it and was looking for a nice yellow fabric ..that day could not go out to get it ..saw the bedsheet and used it for this .

Friday 24 February 2012

Salwar suits


A Blue Chudidar Kurta .                                                        Red Patiyala with White brocade Kurta!




Lehengas

I remember making her first lehenga choli when she was 3 months old for Rakhi ...I will dig that pic and upload it soon ...
Here is it ...


Since then she has had many few of the recent ones are ...







few more recent ones

Shuchi really likes this one !












The Black cloth was left so made another frock out of it..