Knotted Broken Chain Stitch: Kurthi

This is one of my old works. I have done knotted broken chain stitch as main stitch in this project with cone threads.

Cone threads are like rayon threads having good sheen which are suitable to do brazilian embroidery.

 cone threads..2 threads in the right shows how they get tangled and...

this is the solution I found as how to store them..












you can find the tutorial for this stitch in my blog here..

These are the embroidery I did on kurthi..

 bullion tipped daisy stitch with anchor cotton stranded thread, french knots in the centre

 knotted broken chain stitch with anchor stranded cotton thread

 long n short stitch for small flowers

buttonhole stitch for leaves

 herringbone stitch for body part of butterfly, knotted broken chain stitch for wings

Tutorial: Knotted broken chain stitch

On demand from my readers for the tutorial of the knotted broken chain stitch I am reposting it from my old blog sadalas.blogspot.com which I have closed for the public since it was hacked and was giving problems again and again.

So far I have reposted almost all the main projects from my old blog. But skipped many of small works since it is time taking.. there were 300+ posts in my old blog. 

Here is the tutorial..hoe you can understand through the pictures..if any problem please ask me..

At present I am doing chemanthi stitch on a saree..I am travelling more these days and enjoying with relatives more so could not do much of embroidery..will post the pictures once it is completed..

Knotted broken Chain Stitch

The idea struck me one day to use broken chain stitch as filling. I tried and it came out well.
In the below picture you can see the leaf is filled with broken chain stitch.

Then I tried broken chain stitch on horizontal bars but without piercing the fabric and loved  the outcome. I named it knotted broken chain stitch. Pictures of few trials are below. And of course later I did a project with this stitch.
Below the middle green part is knotted broken chain stitch done with cone thread. In the second picture red colour work is knotted broken chain stitch done with 4 strands of silk thread.