Here is another saree re-furbished

Saree Refurbished

This is my old saree, which I am very fond of. I planned to wear this saree on previous day of grand family function. But that morning when I wore it and walked few steps it tore at the border, then I had to change. 

 

 

 

 

I couldn't make up my mind to discard the saree, the saree was still usable. So what I did????

 

 

Lengthy scarf or shawl????

This pink color shawl was made by reusing yarn from half knitted sweater. Undid, washed the yarn by immersing in mild soap water, let it dry for 4 days, then the difficult part of unraveling and rolling the yarn into ball which was like idiyappam (like noodles), though I took care while soaking. Unraveling took two days, managed with two snips.
Then started knitting this shawl / scarf. Ended up a bit lengthy one as I was going on knitting till I ran out of yarn.

The shawl is folded into four in the picture

Double color crochet bag

Mostly I did this while I waited at daughter's music class. When I was contemplating on an embellishment, she gave me this beautiful flower to fix on the flap which she had saved from her old dress. Now this bag has become a sole property of my her. As she wanted to carry her music class books in it, I gave it a double layer lining with a inside pocket of size to hold cell phone and pen. Actually the handle is bit lengthy for her, but anyway I hope she will be clinging it when she grows up too.

Fancy shopping bag

I was hibernating for some time now. Our laptop crashed. Hence my tablet was seized by my son for his studies, to work out sample question papers. So what was I doing in this break.

1. Give company to my son till late night while he is preparing for exams
2. Breaking my head thinking what to make for snacks, breakfast, lunch, dinner with whatever I hear good for health, so that. he doesn't fall sick and more importantly to ward off his temptation of junk snacking.
3. Waking him up whenever he needed to be
4. I scrambled and took out all yarn bundles which I bought 16 to 17 years ago to knit sweaters for my baby son then to put to some use my time as well those yarns

Settled on this pattern so that I could crochet even while I am half asleep, still pretending to be wide awake. Also was able to complete an audio book Hound of the Baskervilles.

 

Few sets I made last week

My co-sis had gifted me few strings of red and green beads. I had those pendants and spacers in my stock. Combined everything and you seeing the result. This prompted me to do further few sets, thereby depleting my stock and now waiting for my daughter's exams to get over so that I can go and refill.

Teachers' Day Gift

On September 4th evening by 7.30 my daughter requested to buy few pens as gifts to give her teachers on Teachers' Day, that is on 5th.

We all know all kids love their teachers and they would like  their gifts to be the best one to give their teachers. So I suggested her that I already have four pouches made of stashed fabric which I thought I will put to some use and will make two more which she can give to her all 6 teachers. She was more than happy. Here are those, 

These two pouches I made on 4th night from the remaining dupatta cloth after stitching a frock for her long back.

Following are the ones I had already made out of again from cloths after stitching salwars. Embellished with few stones here and there.

Pattu Paavadai 4 & 5

My little co-sis is more than happy to send me these cute pictures of pattu pavadai stitched by me for her cute eldest daughter, when she was one a year and half back. This cool blue set is as same as my daughter's (which is my first post in this section). So I was able use the roll of zari I bought already.
 
The Green set is another one, which I embellished with stones and motifs.

 Don't you think cutie little pie will make these outfits gorgeous wearing it!!!

Here is what I did with Hubby's Jeans

What do you do with your Hubby's worn out jeans or if it needs alteration. Here is what I did. I made the jeans into three fourths, the balance one fourth of one leg was transformed as a much useful bottle holder. Click for more to know what I did with another leg. Beware Men folks!!!

Pattu Paavadai 3

This one is another pattu paavadai is stitched for my daughter. She always wanted puff sleeves and here is one.

 

Pattu Paavadai 2

REverytime I used to search for the Oddiyanam (traditional hip belt worn on Paavadai or saree) I really wish i stitch one on the blouse (sattai) itself. Finally I did this one. So no more searching at least for this one.

The Lengthiest Lesson I learnt in my life

This post contains the lengthiest lesson I learnt in my life. So beware this post is lengthy. All in my family know this. So why don’t I let you also know? Definitely, by this I am going to impress everyone that I am not a loser, I am determined, I am a learner. 

 

My Encounter with Edibility

No No. I am not a bad cook at all. Anybody who had eaten my preparations will certify this. Even my Father-in-law had once claimed to my husband that he has got a wife with good culinary skills like his wife (that is Mother-in-law - MIL). Oh! I hear you saying “Ok. Ok. Enough of self-praise. Come to the point.”

Message of Life

 

Kolams or Rangoli as we all know is a cherished tradition of South India. It is drawn in front of the house with coarse rice powder to invite Goddess Lakshmi, to provide food to ants and other small insects. During festivals it takes colourful forms. Tamizh month Margazhi is close to heart month for all kolam lovers. On all days of Margazhi, not only young, all women take pride in drawing big kolams in front of their houses or apartments with Great Spirit. I am one among them. 
 

My favorite Ganesha from invitation

As a habit I was browsing for some new crafts.  I came across a new term called decoupage.

In a few days time,  my dear hubby brought a wedding invitation of his colleague. The invitation was itself unique, my eye catcher was my favorite Ganesha in that. I had been saving the invitation till the wedding was over, as I didn't want to dent it before the important day.

SIR POST

In April I see many of us are getting nostalgic, as it had always been holiday season here. All have their childhood memories of playing on the streets, the time spent with grand parents, things we learned from them and it goes endless.

The Rocking Chair

It has been a week now since I had come from Madurai after attending 60 th birthday (sashtiapthapoorthi) of my second uncle (maama). Enjoyed the function to the core as a family get-together at my first uncle's home. Still my mind is just there pondering over..... Well not the function really. It was the rocking chair occupying my mind and brain. What is so special ? You would ask. Now you could see the white line spiraling in front of my face just before the flashback like in movies. Rewinding my memory just over thirty years.   

Designer Blouse 10

Don't blame me if you think it is to much of criss-cross . It is because I had ample scope to design the blouse as the blouse detached from saree had four zari borders.  Constantly I  was changing my idea, ended up stitching this one. For sleeves too the borders were attached separately as I had left over border.

Designer Blouse 9

This one is latest stitched one. Borders kept vertically. Attached a rectangular piece of cloth in the center. Ended up having bigger piece than required. So what did I do????

Designer Blouse 8

This is the blouse, for first time stitched for other than relatives. My friend gave me a free hand to design to my taste for her daughter's pattu paavadai, which she had taken for 2012 Diwali. She understood me very well that how long I take to decide the decide or simply you can call me lazy, gave me this a month prior to the occasion. 

First marked the measurements, cut, attached only the neckline with right side over the lining, turned it over. Then pasted all motifs before hand stitching it only on to the blouse, so that stitches are not seen underneath the lining cloth. About sleeves.....

Fancy storage bag.

This is made for my niece to store her Odiyanam (traditional hip belt.  The shopkeeper advised to store it wrapped in a cotton cloth so that it doesn't loose its shine. Instead of wrapping in a cloth, I thought of making a bag.

Mobile pouch

This is a mobile pouch made from waste material after sewing a salwar for my client.

The blue material is the bottom of salwar, beige is from tops. I got this mango motif uncut from tops while shaping the neck. Sewed with zigzag stitch in my machine. Stitched velcro to secure the opening.

Paavadai / Full skirt 1

This one is pure silk paavadai / long skirt. I felt very dry stitching the full skirts in the same pattern and it was boring. So was searching the net. Still couldn't find a design or cutting which satisfied me. But my Daughter was pestering me finish it of soon as she was very eager to wear.

Designer Blouse 7

The main part of the episode is I stitched both blouses in three days time. That is record time for me. Otherwise I will be thinking...thinking...for the pattern itself for a week.

Designer Blouse 6

My sister-in-law came here on vacation last month. She couldn't find a tailor who will stitch a designer blouse and give it on time for the occasion of her cousin brother's wedding.. I pounced on the opportunity to utilize my skill to try petal sleeves which I learned from Vani mam's blog when my sister-in-law asked me with much hesitation as she didn't want to disturb me.

Designer Blouse 4

This is a very nice peacock green chiffon saree with scarce gold color prints. Wanted to have a very short sleeves like magyar sleeves but not a sleeveless.

Designer Blouse 3

This Blouse was stitched for my sister-in-law, for a nice green saree with thin maroon border. She just likes only very simple design, not anything grand. So stitched mango motifs at the back and small mango motifs in the sleeves. The motifs all together costed Rs.75/-. Simple on purse too.

Designer Blouse 2

My first Designer Saree purchased for Diwali 2010. It is cool blue.

It is an ordinary blouse design just with a string at the back. There was no need of too much work to do at the back.

Designer Blouse 1

Here, I am posting all the blouses designed by me either before or after stitching. Sometimes I don't get the idea what to design or I may not get the required designs or motifs which I will be having in my mind. Depending on the idea I get after raking my brain, I do the designs. But sure enough I have to decide on the neck design before stitching.

So here is my first one:  Blouse 1

Here is another saree re-furbished

Saree Refurbished

This is my old saree, which I am very fond of. I planned to wear this saree on previous day of grand family function. But that morning when I wore it and walked few steps it tore at the border, then I had to change. 

 

 

 

 

I couldn't make up my mind to discard the saree, the saree was still usable. So what I did????

 

 

Lengthy scarf or shawl????

This pink color shawl was made by reusing yarn from half knitted sweater. Undid, washed the yarn by immersing in mild soap water, let it dry for 4 days, then the difficult part of unraveling and rolling the yarn into ball which was like idiyappam (like noodles), though I took care while soaking. Unraveling took two days, managed with two snips.
Then started knitting this shawl / scarf. Ended up a bit lengthy one as I was going on knitting till I ran out of yarn.

The shawl is folded into four in the picture

Double color crochet bag

Mostly I did this while I waited at daughter's music class. When I was contemplating on an embellishment, she gave me this beautiful flower to fix on the flap which she had saved from her old dress. Now this bag has become a sole property of my her. As she wanted to carry her music class books in it, I gave it a double layer lining with a inside pocket of size to hold cell phone and pen. Actually the handle is bit lengthy for her, but anyway I hope she will be clinging it when she grows up too.

Fancy shopping bag

I was hibernating for some time now. Our laptop crashed. Hence my tablet was seized by my son for his studies, to work out sample question papers. So what was I doing in this break.

1. Give company to my son till late night while he is preparing for exams
2. Breaking my head thinking what to make for snacks, breakfast, lunch, dinner with whatever I hear good for health, so that. he doesn't fall sick and more importantly to ward off his temptation of junk snacking.
3. Waking him up whenever he needed to be
4. I scrambled and took out all yarn bundles which I bought 16 to 17 years ago to knit sweaters for my baby son then to put to some use my time as well those yarns

Settled on this pattern so that I could crochet even while I am half asleep, still pretending to be wide awake. Also was able to complete an audio book Hound of the Baskervilles.

 

Few sets I made last week

My co-sis had gifted me few strings of red and green beads. I had those pendants and spacers in my stock. Combined everything and you seeing the result. This prompted me to do further few sets, thereby depleting my stock and now waiting for my daughter's exams to get over so that I can go and refill.

Teachers' Day Gift

On September 4th evening by 7.30 my daughter requested to buy few pens as gifts to give her teachers on Teachers' Day, that is on 5th.

We all know all kids love their teachers and they would like  their gifts to be the best one to give their teachers. So I suggested her that I already have four pouches made of stashed fabric which I thought I will put to some use and will make two more which she can give to her all 6 teachers. She was more than happy. Here are those, 

These two pouches I made on 4th night from the remaining dupatta cloth after stitching a frock for her long back.

Following are the ones I had already made out of again from cloths after stitching salwars. Embellished with few stones here and there.

Pattu Paavadai 4 & 5

My little co-sis is more than happy to send me these cute pictures of pattu pavadai stitched by me for her cute eldest daughter, when she was one a year and half back. This cool blue set is as same as my daughter's (which is my first post in this section). So I was able use the roll of zari I bought already.
 
The Green set is another one, which I embellished with stones and motifs.

 Don't you think cutie little pie will make these outfits gorgeous wearing it!!!

Here is what I did with Hubby's Jeans

What do you do with your Hubby's worn out jeans or if it needs alteration. Here is what I did. I made the jeans into three fourths, the balance one fourth of one leg was transformed as a much useful bottle holder. Click for more to know what I did with another leg. Beware Men folks!!!

Pattu Paavadai 3

This one is another pattu paavadai is stitched for my daughter. She always wanted puff sleeves and here is one.

 

Pattu Paavadai 2

REverytime I used to search for the Oddiyanam (traditional hip belt worn on Paavadai or saree) I really wish i stitch one on the blouse (sattai) itself. Finally I did this one. So no more searching at least for this one.

The Lengthiest Lesson I learnt in my life

This post contains the lengthiest lesson I learnt in my life. So beware this post is lengthy. All in my family know this. So why don’t I let you also know? Definitely, by this I am going to impress everyone that I am not a loser, I am determined, I am a learner. 

 

My Encounter with Edibility

No No. I am not a bad cook at all. Anybody who had eaten my preparations will certify this. Even my Father-in-law had once claimed to my husband that he has got a wife with good culinary skills like his wife (that is Mother-in-law - MIL). Oh! I hear you saying “Ok. Ok. Enough of self-praise. Come to the point.”

Message of Life

 

Kolams or Rangoli as we all know is a cherished tradition of South India. It is drawn in front of the house with coarse rice powder to invite Goddess Lakshmi, to provide food to ants and other small insects. During festivals it takes colourful forms. Tamizh month Margazhi is close to heart month for all kolam lovers. On all days of Margazhi, not only young, all women take pride in drawing big kolams in front of their houses or apartments with Great Spirit. I am one among them. 
 

My favorite Ganesha from invitation

As a habit I was browsing for some new crafts.  I came across a new term called decoupage.

In a few days time,  my dear hubby brought a wedding invitation of his colleague. The invitation was itself unique, my eye catcher was my favorite Ganesha in that. I had been saving the invitation till the wedding was over, as I didn't want to dent it before the important day.

SIR POST

In April I see many of us are getting nostalgic, as it had always been holiday season here. All have their childhood memories of playing on the streets, the time spent with grand parents, things we learned from them and it goes endless.

The Rocking Chair

It has been a week now since I had come from Madurai after attending 60 th birthday (sashtiapthapoorthi) of my second uncle (maama). Enjoyed the function to the core as a family get-together at my first uncle's home. Still my mind is just there pondering over..... Well not the function really. It was the rocking chair occupying my mind and brain. What is so special ? You would ask. Now you could see the white line spiraling in front of my face just before the flashback like in movies. Rewinding my memory just over thirty years.   

Designer Blouse 10

Don't blame me if you think it is to much of criss-cross . It is because I had ample scope to design the blouse as the blouse detached from saree had four zari borders.  Constantly I  was changing my idea, ended up stitching this one. For sleeves too the borders were attached separately as I had left over border.

Designer Blouse 9

This one is latest stitched one. Borders kept vertically. Attached a rectangular piece of cloth in the center. Ended up having bigger piece than required. So what did I do????

Designer Blouse 8

This is the blouse, for first time stitched for other than relatives. My friend gave me a free hand to design to my taste for her daughter's pattu paavadai, which she had taken for 2012 Diwali. She understood me very well that how long I take to decide the decide or simply you can call me lazy, gave me this a month prior to the occasion. 

First marked the measurements, cut, attached only the neckline with right side over the lining, turned it over. Then pasted all motifs before hand stitching it only on to the blouse, so that stitches are not seen underneath the lining cloth. About sleeves.....

Fancy storage bag.

This is made for my niece to store her Odiyanam (traditional hip belt.  The shopkeeper advised to store it wrapped in a cotton cloth so that it doesn't loose its shine. Instead of wrapping in a cloth, I thought of making a bag.

Mobile pouch

This is a mobile pouch made from waste material after sewing a salwar for my client.

The blue material is the bottom of salwar, beige is from tops. I got this mango motif uncut from tops while shaping the neck. Sewed with zigzag stitch in my machine. Stitched velcro to secure the opening.

Paavadai / Full skirt 1

This one is pure silk paavadai / long skirt. I felt very dry stitching the full skirts in the same pattern and it was boring. So was searching the net. Still couldn't find a design or cutting which satisfied me. But my Daughter was pestering me finish it of soon as she was very eager to wear.

Designer Blouse 7

The main part of the episode is I stitched both blouses in three days time. That is record time for me. Otherwise I will be thinking...thinking...for the pattern itself for a week.

Designer Blouse 6

My sister-in-law came here on vacation last month. She couldn't find a tailor who will stitch a designer blouse and give it on time for the occasion of her cousin brother's wedding.. I pounced on the opportunity to utilize my skill to try petal sleeves which I learned from Vani mam's blog when my sister-in-law asked me with much hesitation as she didn't want to disturb me.

Designer Blouse 4

This is a very nice peacock green chiffon saree with scarce gold color prints. Wanted to have a very short sleeves like magyar sleeves but not a sleeveless.

Designer Blouse 3

This Blouse was stitched for my sister-in-law, for a nice green saree with thin maroon border. She just likes only very simple design, not anything grand. So stitched mango motifs at the back and small mango motifs in the sleeves. The motifs all together costed Rs.75/-. Simple on purse too.

Designer Blouse 2

My first Designer Saree purchased for Diwali 2010. It is cool blue.

It is an ordinary blouse design just with a string at the back. There was no need of too much work to do at the back.

Designer Blouse 1

Here, I am posting all the blouses designed by me either before or after stitching. Sometimes I don't get the idea what to design or I may not get the required designs or motifs which I will be having in my mind. Depending on the idea I get after raking my brain, I do the designs. But sure enough I have to decide on the neck design before stitching.

So here is my first one:  Blouse 1

Here is another saree re-furbished

Saree Refurbished

This is my old saree, which I am very fond of. I planned to wear this saree on previous day of grand family function. But that morning when I wore it and walked few steps it tore at the border, then I had to change. 

 

 

 

 

I couldn't make up my mind to discard the saree, the saree was still usable. So what I did????

 

 

Lengthy scarf or shawl????

This pink color shawl was made by reusing yarn from half knitted sweater. Undid, washed the yarn by immersing in mild soap water, let it dry for 4 days, then the difficult part of unraveling and rolling the yarn into ball which was like idiyappam (like noodles), though I took care while soaking. Unraveling took two days, managed with two snips.
Then started knitting this shawl / scarf. Ended up a bit lengthy one as I was going on knitting till I ran out of yarn.

The shawl is folded into four in the picture

Double color crochet bag

Mostly I did this while I waited at daughter's music class. When I was contemplating on an embellishment, she gave me this beautiful flower to fix on the flap which she had saved from her old dress. Now this bag has become a sole property of my her. As she wanted to carry her music class books in it, I gave it a double layer lining with a inside pocket of size to hold cell phone and pen. Actually the handle is bit lengthy for her, but anyway I hope she will be clinging it when she grows up too.

Fancy shopping bag

I was hibernating for some time now. Our laptop crashed. Hence my tablet was seized by my son for his studies, to work out sample question papers. So what was I doing in this break.

1. Give company to my son till late night while he is preparing for exams
2. Breaking my head thinking what to make for snacks, breakfast, lunch, dinner with whatever I hear good for health, so that. he doesn't fall sick and more importantly to ward off his temptation of junk snacking.
3. Waking him up whenever he needed to be
4. I scrambled and took out all yarn bundles which I bought 16 to 17 years ago to knit sweaters for my baby son then to put to some use my time as well those yarns

Settled on this pattern so that I could crochet even while I am half asleep, still pretending to be wide awake. Also was able to complete an audio book Hound of the Baskervilles.

 

Few sets I made last week

My co-sis had gifted me few strings of red and green beads. I had those pendants and spacers in my stock. Combined everything and you seeing the result. This prompted me to do further few sets, thereby depleting my stock and now waiting for my daughter's exams to get over so that I can go and refill.

Teachers' Day Gift

On September 4th evening by 7.30 my daughter requested to buy few pens as gifts to give her teachers on Teachers' Day, that is on 5th.

We all know all kids love their teachers and they would like  their gifts to be the best one to give their teachers. So I suggested her that I already have four pouches made of stashed fabric which I thought I will put to some use and will make two more which she can give to her all 6 teachers. She was more than happy. Here are those, 

These two pouches I made on 4th night from the remaining dupatta cloth after stitching a frock for her long back.

Following are the ones I had already made out of again from cloths after stitching salwars. Embellished with few stones here and there.

Pattu Paavadai 4 & 5

My little co-sis is more than happy to send me these cute pictures of pattu pavadai stitched by me for her cute eldest daughter, when she was one a year and half back. This cool blue set is as same as my daughter's (which is my first post in this section). So I was able use the roll of zari I bought already.
 
The Green set is another one, which I embellished with stones and motifs.

 Don't you think cutie little pie will make these outfits gorgeous wearing it!!!

Here is what I did with Hubby's Jeans

What do you do with your Hubby's worn out jeans or if it needs alteration. Here is what I did. I made the jeans into three fourths, the balance one fourth of one leg was transformed as a much useful bottle holder. Click for more to know what I did with another leg. Beware Men folks!!!

Pattu Paavadai 3

This one is another pattu paavadai is stitched for my daughter. She always wanted puff sleeves and here is one.

 

Pattu Paavadai 2

REverytime I used to search for the Oddiyanam (traditional hip belt worn on Paavadai or saree) I really wish i stitch one on the blouse (sattai) itself. Finally I did this one. So no more searching at least for this one.

The Lengthiest Lesson I learnt in my life

This post contains the lengthiest lesson I learnt in my life. So beware this post is lengthy. All in my family know this. So why don’t I let you also know? Definitely, by this I am going to impress everyone that I am not a loser, I am determined, I am a learner. 

 

My Encounter with Edibility

No No. I am not a bad cook at all. Anybody who had eaten my preparations will certify this. Even my Father-in-law had once claimed to my husband that he has got a wife with good culinary skills like his wife (that is Mother-in-law - MIL). Oh! I hear you saying “Ok. Ok. Enough of self-praise. Come to the point.”

Message of Life

 

Kolams or Rangoli as we all know is a cherished tradition of South India. It is drawn in front of the house with coarse rice powder to invite Goddess Lakshmi, to provide food to ants and other small insects. During festivals it takes colourful forms. Tamizh month Margazhi is close to heart month for all kolam lovers. On all days of Margazhi, not only young, all women take pride in drawing big kolams in front of their houses or apartments with Great Spirit. I am one among them. 
 

My favorite Ganesha from invitation

As a habit I was browsing for some new crafts.  I came across a new term called decoupage.

In a few days time,  my dear hubby brought a wedding invitation of his colleague. The invitation was itself unique, my eye catcher was my favorite Ganesha in that. I had been saving the invitation till the wedding was over, as I didn't want to dent it before the important day.

SIR POST

In April I see many of us are getting nostalgic, as it had always been holiday season here. All have their childhood memories of playing on the streets, the time spent with grand parents, things we learned from them and it goes endless.

The Rocking Chair

It has been a week now since I had come from Madurai after attending 60 th birthday (sashtiapthapoorthi) of my second uncle (maama). Enjoyed the function to the core as a family get-together at my first uncle's home. Still my mind is just there pondering over..... Well not the function really. It was the rocking chair occupying my mind and brain. What is so special ? You would ask. Now you could see the white line spiraling in front of my face just before the flashback like in movies. Rewinding my memory just over thirty years.   

Designer Blouse 10

Don't blame me if you think it is to much of criss-cross . It is because I had ample scope to design the blouse as the blouse detached from saree had four zari borders.  Constantly I  was changing my idea, ended up stitching this one. For sleeves too the borders were attached separately as I had left over border.

Designer Blouse 9

This one is latest stitched one. Borders kept vertically. Attached a rectangular piece of cloth in the center. Ended up having bigger piece than required. So what did I do????

Designer Blouse 8

This is the blouse, for first time stitched for other than relatives. My friend gave me a free hand to design to my taste for her daughter's pattu paavadai, which she had taken for 2012 Diwali. She understood me very well that how long I take to decide the decide or simply you can call me lazy, gave me this a month prior to the occasion. 

First marked the measurements, cut, attached only the neckline with right side over the lining, turned it over. Then pasted all motifs before hand stitching it only on to the blouse, so that stitches are not seen underneath the lining cloth. About sleeves.....

Fancy storage bag.

This is made for my niece to store her Odiyanam (traditional hip belt.  The shopkeeper advised to store it wrapped in a cotton cloth so that it doesn't loose its shine. Instead of wrapping in a cloth, I thought of making a bag.

Mobile pouch

This is a mobile pouch made from waste material after sewing a salwar for my client.

The blue material is the bottom of salwar, beige is from tops. I got this mango motif uncut from tops while shaping the neck. Sewed with zigzag stitch in my machine. Stitched velcro to secure the opening.

Paavadai / Full skirt 1

This one is pure silk paavadai / long skirt. I felt very dry stitching the full skirts in the same pattern and it was boring. So was searching the net. Still couldn't find a design or cutting which satisfied me. But my Daughter was pestering me finish it of soon as she was very eager to wear.

Designer Blouse 7

The main part of the episode is I stitched both blouses in three days time. That is record time for me. Otherwise I will be thinking...thinking...for the pattern itself for a week.

Designer Blouse 6

My sister-in-law came here on vacation last month. She couldn't find a tailor who will stitch a designer blouse and give it on time for the occasion of her cousin brother's wedding.. I pounced on the opportunity to utilize my skill to try petal sleeves which I learned from Vani mam's blog when my sister-in-law asked me with much hesitation as she didn't want to disturb me.

Designer Blouse 4

This is a very nice peacock green chiffon saree with scarce gold color prints. Wanted to have a very short sleeves like magyar sleeves but not a sleeveless.

Designer Blouse 3

This Blouse was stitched for my sister-in-law, for a nice green saree with thin maroon border. She just likes only very simple design, not anything grand. So stitched mango motifs at the back and small mango motifs in the sleeves. The motifs all together costed Rs.75/-. Simple on purse too.

Designer Blouse 2

My first Designer Saree purchased for Diwali 2010. It is cool blue.

It is an ordinary blouse design just with a string at the back. There was no need of too much work to do at the back.

Designer Blouse 1

Here, I am posting all the blouses designed by me either before or after stitching. Sometimes I don't get the idea what to design or I may not get the required designs or motifs which I will be having in my mind. Depending on the idea I get after raking my brain, I do the designs. But sure enough I have to decide on the neck design before stitching.

So here is my first one:  Blouse 1