We have a baby boy. Read about it here: http://www.rocksea.org/pratyahara

How long it takes for each page? Well, it depends on a lot many factors…some require a lot of research, some require a lot of stitch photography, some requires a lot of planning, and it might take a couple of days for each stitch. While, there were days when I was able to do 2 or 3 stitches in a single day.

You can subscribe to the hand embrodeiry pages. This way, you will be informed of any new stitch I post.

Thanks for the replies… How’s your baby? Is it a him or her? I am sure you must have made some really nice embroidery work for the little one… Whenever you have time, we (visitors on the site) would love to see those in pics.. Or even pics of other projects over time that you have done. But no, I don’t think you are going to be able to “steal” away time… They seem to know EXACTLY when we are doing something important and choose to bawl at that time! Do take your time…

I did see later in some other page that you had used Adobe and Wordpress. Ok, I don’t know both.. I am sure they must be very good, going by your pages.

It took me three days (in between interruptions), but I have finally downloaded all of your (embroidery tutorials) pages. Sorry to repeat it, but I am still in awe of the entire effort. Just curious to know (if its ok to share) just how much time it has taken to load each page, right from the planning stage, as also how much total time it has taken (in months?). I don’t know how much your husband likes embroidery itself, but one can see he has been very supportive.. Excellent to see such team work.. Keep it up.

Best Regards,
-feltra

I don’t use several fabrics with a stitch at different stages of completion. I just do the stitch on a single fabric and take pitcures at different stages of stitching. I draw the plan of the different steps for the tutorial at this juncture.

And, we use wordpress to publish these pages.

We are enthralled by your appreciation for us and our efforts. It makes our work all the more worthwhile!:)

You are right, a lot of work and research has gone into making each page. Embroidery began as an interest for me. I began with just 50 stitches, but as I learnt and researched more, I gathered around 300 stitches till date. I am sure I am yet to fumble upon more. I also realised that only few tutorials gave the right information on the internet. I also found many of them difficult to follow. So, we wanted to give out free tutorials with the right information to the interested masses, especially the beginners.

My husband, Roxy, encouraged me to begin this tutorial. He always went through each page after it had been done and gave his comments and suggestions when required.

Each page has gone through a considerable amount of research, time, energy and effort (not detailing the procedure). Now, of course, with a 6 month old baby, it is difficult to give it so much time. So, it is not possible to post the new stitch pages consistently. Anyway, I can try to steal 10 minutes here and there to do whatever I can, but prefer not to as it will take a toll upon the quality of the pages, which we are particular about. Like you said, some pages had to be redone to maintain the quality of the tutorial.

We are glad that you found it inspiring to try out some stitches yourself. It is flattering, in fact. Please do let us know if you do and how it came out to be. Hope your wife likes these pages too.

All best wishes.

Dear Rocksea & Saramme,

My wife is an avid cross-sticher and I was plumbing the web for good sites, and chanced upon your site. It was the neat photos first that drew me to keep browsing your site. Man, what a site! I myself (though I have never done any stiching except maybe fix some buttons!) want to try out some of the basic designs. Your site makes embroidery look oh so easy…! Incidentally, my wife is yet to see this and I am sure she will start appreciating the finer points of the craft.

I started to download all your tutorial pages (the links on the right side of the page) on various stitches. As I download each page, my appreciation and awe at the pains you have taken (i am assuming both of you, since its really great to have been done by just one person, though thats possible too). Let me try and go thru the steps that you might have done to load A SINGLE page:
1. Physically plan out the steps that you want to talk about
2. Have different cloth pieces and perform the stictch in various stages of completion.
3. Arrange each piece of cloth with the needle and the thread (over/under) showing correctly.
4. Take a photo of this and load it into some kind of Paint program.
5. Number the points A,B,C etc (is it Lucida Console? Also, is it MSPaint or something else?)
6. Now, looking at the pictures, and your plan (in step 1), write down the text for each pic.
7. Review the whole set of pics and text, and if necessary write out a summary (like gotchas etc)
8. Load the whole set of files and make it a single page (I suppose you have some web publisher tool for this..)
9. Review the whole page, before you decide to publish it to your site.

Now, just looking at the amount of pages and the attention to detail you have given to each page, I AM SURE that you would have had to redo several pages / stichings / text etc. But still, you seem to have persevered. This can come (IMHO) only from 2 things:
a) your love of the craft itself
b) your willingness (inner urging?) to share it with others who want to learn…

At the end of it all, it looks oh so easy… Kudos!! I doubt if even some of the “professionally” done pages will have this much attention to detail (i mean on any subject)….

And all this you are giving away free to people to learn and enjoy!

More power to you both and may God bless you profusely….

Warm Regards,
-feltra
PS: I have yet to go thru the other areas on your main site…

Nikon D80 has been loyal to me so far Bought it while I was at Japan. I guess Nikon D50 should also do for the quality of a DSLR?

Hey u r from India right, but travelling the world, huh?

Let us hope the letters and photographs WE splash around make some difference and bring forth the message of love and life with nature.

You seems to be in a rhyming mood these days

Sarah & Rocksea

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