Nature kolam

My sons friends used to visit our house for Dinner and I am happy preparing our trational southIndian dishes. Everytime i used to put a little kolam in the available place at the entrance. Otherwise all the places here are covered with carpet.
I cannot get varities of flowers(available in market but a little hesistent to ask to purchase flowers. )I put kolam using ricedry flour and decorate it with   flowers on his patio. I fed up with the voilet and rose. And this time I used the yellow flower.

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On one day I got a little yellow flower and I compensate it with carrots grape.and strawberry.The ricepodi kolam is not visible here.
Here at the little space, little availability poo+veg+fruit the mixed kolam is ready.I called it now Nature kolam. Correct?

Raised chain stitch

.TAST 2010 Week 28 and 29 is raised chain stitch.

The tutorial is here.

Running stitch design

There was a space available in the centre at the wooven trills stitch design felt.
I thought of doing running stitich in it. So i had done whipped running stitch design. But it does not come as per my expectation. I dontknow why such because of the thread count or colour or the design i had choosen.
O.K. Somehow i finished it.

Running stitch.

Really running stitch is a beautiful stitch and we can do a lot of freehand design out of it. This weeks TAST1 week 17 is running stitch.
But for that i triedout some running stitch and variation of running stitches.
those are whipped running, loop running, lase running likewise.
I have to give a trial of a design with running stitch shortly.
Here is the running stitches.

woven trills stich design.

I had triedout woven trills stitch in a felt cloth in this design. I have to complete the centre.
will do it shortly.

wollen flowers.

I found the butterfly is sitting here without flower. So i want to tryout some flowers. I had done some wollen flowers so that the butterfly can suck the nector from it.

Ribbon butterfly.

We are all very lucky that we are all living in this computer yugam.
Here internet helps us in many ways. One who wants to show cause their cabability can show their skills through videos. The one who wants to learn things can watch the viedos and can learn and try. This not applicable for crafts alone. Even cooking, learning so many new dishes trying it out is a healthy habbit.
I feel lucky to learn things and thanks one who posts their skills in youtube .
In such a way I come cross this butterfly making video in youtube. I am not able to read the language, but seeing the photos make me try it out on hand.
I tried it out and happy to see the result.
This is done by satin ribbon .I attached two colours together and centre part is a bead work.
This is a trial. In feature i can use this in some projects.
I attach this work in a paper plate.