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Long Jacket Style kurta Design (Saree Turned Jacket Kurta)

April 17, 2018 by Harshitha Leave a Comment

Kurta with long jacket pattern:

Old is not old anymore. This Long jacket style kurta design will prove.

Remodeling has made everything turn new. Mom’s old Sarees are on demand now!

Long jacket style occurred to me when I saw this silk saree of my client with a little emotion is attached to it. She wanted me to make something out of her mom’s saree.

I thought a Jacket style kurti will justify for the amount of material available, as it is a saree.

Long Jacket Style kurta design:

It is a 2 piece dress, a sleeveless kurti with a long flown jacket over it.

Kurta is stitched using pallu of the saree. Long strip of pallu from top to bottom in the center, on front and back is stitched. The green strip of kurti is made to dominate through jacket. The boat neck compliments the open knot style of the jacket.

The jacket has been made in women shirt dress style but with knots on the top as you can see in the image below.

Entire saree is used except a some part of border is left to make this long jacket style. I deliberately used less of the green border on the jacket. Making sure that look doesn’t seem jumbled colors with green and orange.

Contrasting orange Jacket is to dominate with the visible green part of kurta. I’ve tried to make it look as less messy as posssible using the border only at the hands.

Material is already bright with print all over it, using border everywhere may disturb the look.

My long jacket style kurta design satisfied client exceeding my expectation. That made me feel more happy.

Sleeves Design Pattern (Puff Sleeve Pattern – High Slit Kurta)

March 19, 2018 by Harshitha 1 Comment

Puff Sleeve Pattern | Kalamkari Dress Design:

It took a while for me to decide on what to stitch next after a flawless women shirt dress… and got to try this sleeves design pattern in kalamkari dress design. This is going to be a puff sleeve pattern with the puff being situated at three places instead of one on top of the sleeve. Check out some latest types of sleeves for dresses.

Grabbed all the different materials I had and watched them for a while. With all the half-baked ideas lighting up in mind one for each material, it was all chaotic. Then decided on picking up one and think over it. Then got the idea of experimenting with puff sleeve pattern.

Picked this intimidatingly dark print over a cream colored thick cotton fabric material. It was tough to think of any heavy pattern like flares, umbrella etc.. so a puff sleeve pattern with any simple overall pattern would already make it dominating and suiting for a fairly lighter complexion.

I wanted it to be simple and appealing. Simple with the body and appealing with the hands as I’ve had many ideas for the sleeves to be puff sleeve pattern. Finally decided on puff sleeve pattern. Usually, puff sleeves are frilled on the top center of the shoulder. But I’ve added an extra single wide frill on the side (where usually the princess dart begins).

Pattern cutting for this kind of hand is more calculation after imagination. The simplest way is to grab a paper and work on it with a sharpened pencil and a neat eraser.

The normal pattern of the sleeves appear like this

But the modified puff sleeve pattern has the parameter of managing to add extra length at the circumference of the arm. This extra circumference is added where ever a frill or a pleat is needed for this puff sleeve pattern design. In my design 2 pleats on the top and 1 each on the center front and back halves as shown in the image below.

Puff Sleeve Pattern Cutting:

Sleeves Design Pattern | Puff Sleeve Pattern | Kalamkari Dress Design:

Finally, the puff sleeve pattern of this kalamkari dress design looked like this…

I’m sure, the tassels must have been noticed. This was another addition that I’ve done, for the first time. I’ve searched on YouTube for references and this helped.

I’ve chosen subtle colors consciously for tassels, to make the kurti soothing to that dominating dark print and puff sleeve pattern.

The high slits make the kurti look more fashionable and trendy. Pairing this puff sleeve pattern kurti up with a palazzo would give it one look and with jeans gives an entirely different look. I’ve tried this puff sleeve pattern kurti with the jeans and a pair of chunky heels from Ajio.

Kalamkari Dress Design | Kalamkari Kurta:

Here’s the final kalamkari dress design in puff sleeve pattern.

The back side neck design is a little teardrop 😉

Kalamkari Tops For Skirts (60s look top-blue silk skirt)

February 5, 2018 by Harshitha Leave a Comment

Kalamkari Top For Skirt

My 60s look short kalamkari kurti embraced and made its place in the list of favorites for many, in spite of being simple. Here’s this kalamkari tops for skirts look when complimented with a straight skirt, by straight I mean with little gathering making it fall straight from waist. I thought blue could be the best combination as it contrasts the kurti and highlights it in-turn.

Combination Styles

January 29, 2018 by Harshitha Leave a Comment

Check out Asymmetrical HemLine Kurta complementing with an off white patterned palazzo.

And here’s combination of the cigarette pants with western tops.

Kalamkari Kurta Design (Front Cut Kurti – Cigarette Pants)

January 21, 2018 by Harshitha Leave a Comment

Kalamkari Dress Design | Front Cut Kurti:

Here’s another beautiful floral print kalamkari kurta design with a kalamkari cotton saree. You can also check out my kalamkari dress design patterns which include some kalamkari kurta designs in 5 different styles. The hand printed kalamkari kurta designs when used in kalamkari kurtis makes the garment look stylish and sophisticated.

This design of mine can be called the most trendy style among all the styles of kalamkari kurta designs and cigarette pants with kurta. Get a new fresh look with this kalamkari dress design in front cut kurti for your day long look. Its awesome color gives you a charming look.

Continuing kalamkari style with kalamkari long dress, this time its fully professional way from cutting to stitching. The yellow and blue combination print on black background gave fullness to cloth.

Kalamkari Dress Design Material:

I thought a fully flared type style would be great for the fullness of this kalamkari dress design material. But wanted to add a different material or color, in contrast, to reduce the heaviness and use it for a wider variety of occasions and complexions.

Yellow could be the best contrast as other colors blue or cream would make it dull or awkward respectively for the front cut kurti.

Picked up some sheets and pencil for sketching and ended up with a front cut gathered kurta and a yellow cigarette pant. It looked like this

Kalamkari Kurta Design – Cigarette Pants With Kurta | Kalamkari Dress Design:

Here is the kalamkari kurta design with cigarette pants. The cigarette pants with kurta will modernize the look.

Kalamkari Kurta Design | Kalamkari Kurta Designs - Cigarette Pants With Kurta

Now the gathering part is tough. Again started to check out YouTube and found ways to add frills, pleats or the gathers at the waist as sketched. I’ve used the last technique for the gathers.

Gathering enough information and materials, took the pattern cuttings which was mentioned in my kalamkari long dress and the cloth.

Height measurements are important, which was a little difficult to decide for me. The body height till waist is constant but the height from waist to below needs more trials to decide the look.

I’ve cut the upper body pattern, hands and kept it aside.

This cloth needed a lining for the upper body for a finished firm look, so I’ve cut the lining pattern also the same as the actual cloth.

Then decided on the height as 40″ from the waist and gathered the cloth following the video above. Stitched everything together.

Kalamkari Kurta Design | Kalamkari Kurta Designs | Cigarette Pants With Kurta:

Kalamkari Kurta Designs | Front Cut Kurti | Cigarette Pants With Kurta:

The cigarette pants with kurta or with any kalamkari kurta designs are supposed to be visible in some fashionable way. In this kalamkari kurta design, it is from the front through and below the slit adding style to the kurta and making it a front cut kurti.

Kalamkari Dress Neck Design:

A kalamkari dress neck design of rhombus-shaped loop added in the back. As it is a closed round neck in the front, I’ve added hooks on the side shoulder for easy wearing and removing.

Coming to the trousers section, I need to cut the patterns first on sheets and then start applying that on the yellow cloth. Till that point of completing the top section and looking for what next, I was completely ignorant about the pant cutting patterns. This time YouTube wasn’t so interesting, I felt so, and Pinterest was on. I would like to come again with more details on trousers. However, there’s my complete outfit, kalamkari kurta above.

I hope you like this unique kalamkari front cut kurti, back neck and cigarette pants style among the kalamkari kurta designs you get to see every day.