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Showing posts with label Anarkali Kameez. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anarkali Kameez. Show all posts

Jul 31, 2011

Happy Birthday To me!





31 years ago an compulsive sewer with more of right brain functionary was born. She never grew up! rather grew up slowly and realized who she is and what she wants later in her life only after she became a mother! 

A baby was born 31 years ago on this day,and it is none other than me! Yes! Its my B'day today. 

Last year was the first time after having entered 30s i was quite nervous and couldn't handle the fact that i am ageing. But soon after an year went by i realized that everyone ages, the difference is it doesn't matter to those who age gracefully. I have decided to age gracefully and accept what i am and live for what i can be. 

Plan to do a lot of things this year, for starters it would be great if i make to the list of participants in Blogger's Wardrobe (Check my detailed post on this out HERE)

Custom kids clothing launched about a month back has been going on well with few orders coming in, hope to brand myself well on etsy and ebay. Plan to launch Custom Women's clothing soon! (may be in a month's time). I can see brand Adithi's Couture going places, that's my dream, lets see!

Sweet start to the b'day through the gulab jamuns prepared by MIL, later followed by heavy lunch, in between well it was a lazy sunday after all !

Hubby and sis planned a surprise for me and asked me to get ready after lunch, they took off to a long drive with my darling daughter and suddenly stopped on a muddy laden path (short cut supposed to be, a very bumpy road!) which had awesome view of lush green paddy fields (about 25 km from our place!) and had the perfect backdrop for the action shot of b'day anarkali.

Here are action shots



As i was busy posing for pictures, my hubby made sure i was totally engrossed in the photoshoot, i did not realize something happening at the rear of the car! once i headed back to the car, my sister had set it all up, there it was a cake with candle lit (alright i am 31 but one candle is enough to assume so isn't it!) Wow! i was pleasantly surprised! My DD sang the b'day song and wished me as i cut the cake.




After which we again travelled for about another 20 minutes are so and reached a Movie Complex and watched the movie 'Theivathirumagal' nice but bit of sober movie, which ironically i had earlier decided not to watch as i don't like watching movies which make me very sentimental and cry these days! I am more into fun kind of movies! But the movie was nice and my DD enjoyed the outing as well. 

The surprises did not end there, as my hubby had planned for a romantic dinner later at night, after dropping sister and daughter back home! But i was too tired by now and did not want to leave my Daughter behind after seeing the senti movie (about father-daughter love, father is a person whose brain growth is that of 5 year old and brings up his daughter 5 yr old, then the grandfather separates them and seeks legal custoday of his daughter's child and so on... ) Since DD was tired and had to be put to sleeve, we cancelled the dinner date! promised hubby to make up for it another day!

There it was, the b'day was here and was almost done, i was all cuddled up in bed reliving those moments of the day, which was made special by my loved ones. 

Enough of my blah blah now, back to what this site is all about stylish outfits, how can that be left behind on my special day, here it is ...

The Anarkali which i managed to sew for the past 2 days. will give details alongside action shots later, hope to have lots of fun today. bye for now.  For more pics Click Read More link

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Nov 23, 2010

Anarkali Tutorial - Enjoy!

For Sale - Kids Custom Clothing From Adithis Amma Sews- Click Here


Pattern making softwares take a break! Here is another hand-drafted pattern from Adithis Amma Sews



P.S. Though i hand drafted it and scanned, some problem with scan settings and it was very light imprint and hence add to darken it using Photoshop. Hope it is clear, in case you have any visibility problems in any of the steps please do let me know, i will try to fix it.

Coming to sleeves, will do a separate tute on drafting and sewing Short Chinese Lantern sleeve later.

STEP 1: 




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Nov 19, 2010

Anarkali Kameez - First Look!

Howzz That!


Anarkali kameez - Front View!


Anarkali Kameez is finally ready and has already been flaunted at a wedding by my Sister.

This dress has been in the making for long now and decided to finish it yesterday.

Will do the tutorial for this in parts

Bodice part
Skirt part
Sleeve part

Features of the dress are

Princess seam bodice
Chinese Lantern Sleeve (i wish i had interfaced the green brocade fabric as well in the sleeves so that they stand out more..., will do so in the next Lantern sleeve attempt)
Skirt part of the kameez has panels a.k.a. 'Kali'. 10 each at front & back.
Back has invizible zip closure

This has been paired with a brand new churidhaar... i just love the churidhaar material, i thought it would be difficult to work with initially, but it was such a darling to sew and more comfy to wear as per my sis's words.

It fits her and she is happy with the outfit, that made my day.

Watch out for the Tutorials to come out in 3 parts...all drafted, to be scanned and uploaded....

Back View

Churidhaar

Close Up of Panels!


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Nov 8, 2010

Anarkali Kameez Tutorial - Voted !


Anarkali Kameez got the maximum votes.... so as promised lets demystify Anarkali Kameez

'Kali' means Panels. So it is most popularly tagged as Empire waist top + Panel Skirt

The norm is to have 10 panels each at front & back...though it is customizable as per our wish. After all we are our own designers aren't we ....

In this diagram of prototype Anarkali Kameez, I chose the princess seam + empire waist bodice.

Skirt can be flared anywhere between A-Line to Semi-circle to Circle skirt. Chose a base skirt 

Divide that base skirt into panels. Normally it is 10 panels at front & 10 Panels at the back.

We will work with 1/4 draft so it will be 5 panels that we will be drafting (on Fold at CF & CB)

So are you gals (n guys) ready?!

All you need is a fitting basic shift dress / Kameez with 2 darts (darts only optional depends on the fit you desire...but the more fitting the anarkali kameez, the better it looks!) 

This week we will finish Anarkali kameez right from pattern drafting,cutting,sewing... till we have the finished outfit...

Join in... have fun...



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