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Another great tutorial from Deepa

July 4, 2008 by Denise Felton 3 Comments

chemanthy

Deepa Balagopal has posted another excellent tutorial for an Indian embroidery stitch. This time, she walks us through chemanthy work – a complex spiraling stitch. Check out the instructions and then take a stab at this lovely technique.

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  1. nithya says

    July 4, 2008 at 8:48 pm

    I saw your website, its so nice and ur chemanthy tutorial is just great .Pls. tell me what thread u had used for that chemanthy work.And have u got any tutorial for aari work? Thanks in advance and sorry for troubling.Take care,bye.

  2. Prabha says

    July 17, 2008 at 6:52 am

    hi deepa,

    Ur work is fantastic,awesome. U have done a great job by teaching all of us.

    I too have done chemanthy work in a salwar. But I didn’t know the name .I was thrilled to see the work in ur blog.

    prabha

  3. gayathri rajesh says

    April 8, 2010 at 8:38 am

    hi deepa!!!

    xellent work!! very gud tuts!!!

    bye! gayathri rajesh,bangalore

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