The Path Followed

Creativity is all about expression. Many an electrifying thought has fizzled out like a damp squib during a poorly executed production process, just as many a mediocre idea has grown to the brilliance of a supernova after careful crafting.

Keeping a record of the creative path is a good way to obtain greater awareness of one's strengths and weaknesses, and sharing them for critiques lends more depth. The digital camera and the internet are a couple of tools that have made this a fantastic voyage of discovery.

Let me try to do this well.

After finishing the CQ patch and clutch, I decided to turn my attention to my much beleaguered wardrobe. Summer is upon us and the mercury is shooting up, so it's time to get out those cool cottons and airy skirts. Since I seriously lapsed in this department last year, I am paying for this with a meager selection this year. And so resolving to remedy the situation, I dug out my stash of fine block printed cotton, and quickly tailored a 3/4th sleeve short kurta that i could wear over jeans, salwars or churidhars.

I decided to spend some time over the design i would embroider, and this is what i came up with after a couple of days. Like many of my own designs, it is pretty much a step at a time, although i did have a general idea as to what i wanted the look to be.


a double row of scroll stitch forms a basic grid down center front.



The grid ended up with the basic block aligned to each section differently -i decided that this would give me the asymmetry i was looking for, and placed a whipped spider's wheel on one flower of each grid.


Next came a row of chain stitch in black, and a few leaves? petals?

Stayed tuned for more.