These were done using fevicryl hobby ideas acrylic colors and 3-D glitter outliner (on the abstract
design). Since I’d
done a 2-month tailoring course at Kerala, I wanted to combine the two and came
out with these – a peacock design (my peacock looks a little scared?! :( ) fabric painted on a self-sewn cushion cover, a Ganesha
wall-hanging done using stencil technique with a border (taken from amma’s blouse piece), an abstract wall-hanging
on a blue shiny cloth(again, amma had actually given me for practising sewing a
blouse! ;-)) and a self-made small handbag with vegetable printing. Vegetable
printing was nothing new to many of us since we’d all done it back in school
days. Here I have made use of carrots for the green rectangular border, beans
for the red/orange circles and potato for the yellow triangles. Working with
potatoes is not very easy and the pattern does not come very uniform, but the
end result has an earthy feel to it. My husband always says there is some
beauty in the asymmetry of hand-made products. True, isn’t it? :)
