Creative Stitches

Water Filling Stitch in Aari Embroidery is a fillig Stitch that used to fill the area in the Fabric. Water filling Stitch is also known as Pani Stitch. Pani means water in hindi. Water Filling Stitch is also chain stitch doing like flow of water. It has no pattern or shapes.  This kind of stitch is used to fill the embty area in fabric design. Do Water Filling Stitch close by in the embty area in fabric looks good.  To do the Filling Stitch we can do curved chains and frequently change the direction according to the previous curved chains .  The below video shows how to do the Water Filling Stitch in Aari Embroidery.

Cut work Stitch is usually done for cut work in fabric. Cut work is been done in fabric for design purpose that putting medium size hole or cutting some portion of cloth and may attach other colored cloth in the background. Cut work is done as the border of  cut portion to avoid fraying the thread after cutting. First do the chain stitch on the designs and then do the zigzag chains on the chains. The above video shows how to do cut work stitch in Aari embroidery.

The chain stitches of embroidery is been done in two different colors is called Double Colour Chain Stitch in Aari Embroidery.  There are three different types of Double Colour Chain Stitch in Aari Embroidery.  The above video shows how to do different types of Double Colour Chain Stitch in Aari Embroidery using two different color threads. The Double Colour Chain Stitch in Aari Embroidery is for designing the fabric with colorful threads and is used to handling two threads at a time.

Curve and Square Stitch are the chain stitches of Aari Embroidery which is done in curve and square shapes. Practicing chain stitches of  Aari Embroidery in curve and squares indeed to design easily. Trace or draw the above image on fabric and do the chain stitches on the line.  The curve one is like doing continuous chains, but in the square stitch  do end chain in every corner. Make one small chain that is called end chain , when change the direction of chain and then do normal chains. The end chain will be done in every corner for the shape of sharp square. the appearance is also perfect. The above video shows how to do square and curve stitch in Aari Hand Embroidery. Practicing this stitches with end chain makes design quickly and perfectly.

First step to do the Aari embroidery or maggam embroidery is fix the Aari frame with cloth. And make ready things need to do Aari embroidery like thread needle and thread. Need more practice and patience to do Aari embroidery. The below video shows how to do Aari embroidery basic stitch. The aari embroidery stitches looks like chain stitch in free hand embroidery.  First hold the needle in one hand usually in right hand. Hold the thread under the fabric and hold its tip in the left hand.  Punch the needle on the fabric and pull the thread from the bottom of the fabric using the hook of the needle. When punch the needle put the thread in the hook of the needle using left hand and catch the thread in the needle. After pulled the thread on the fabric , move needle to small distance  and rotate the needle clockwise and anti clockwise then punch there. This cycle is one chain. Repeat the chain stitch with equal distance to form beautiful stitches. ...

The first step of Aari embroidery is trace the selected design in the cloth to do Aari embroidery. Then fix the embroidery frame whichever that is round shaped small frame or cot shaped frame which is depending on the size of the fabric. The next thing is fix the cloth in the Aari frame. How to fix the cloth in the Aari round free hand embroidery frame. The above video shows how to fix the round frame and cloth to made the Aari embroidery. We can make stitches of embroidery with too tighten and stretchy fabric only. So once you make sure the tighten of the cloths.  Stretch the fabric along the frame sides and hear the drum sound when u tap on the fabric. After that tighten the embroidery hook nuts.  After tighten the hook we shouldn’t stretch the fabric along frame sides, it causes to tear the cloth. 

Aari embroidery is done in stretched fabric. Generally there are two types of frames used in Aari/ maggam embroidery. They are  Round frame  Cot shape frame Round shape frame comes with standard size which is used to hold the usual hand embroidery wooden frame; which is used to hold the tighted cloth for free hand embroidery. We can do the Aari embroidery using with the round shaped Aari frame along with wooden or plastic frame. Round shape Aari frame is used only for small designs and small sizes of clothes and fabrics. Cot shaped frames are in various sizes and different sizes of cots are depending on the sizes of fabric. We can also do Aari embroidery on small size of cloths using cot shaped Aari frame. It is used to stretch and hold the fabric. How to fix the Aari round iron frame.