Shetty Kere

Location : Shettikeri ,Gadag, Karnataka
Date : 27-Jan-2009.
Time: 4 AM to AM

List of birds seen

1. Common Sandpiper.
   
2. Euresian Collar Dove.
   
3. Red watiled lapwing.
   
4. Brahmini duck.
   
5. Babbler.
   
6. Ashy crown sparrow lark.
   
7. River turn.
8. Grey frankolin.
9. Little egret.
10. Silver bill.
11. Intermediate Egret.
12. purple rump sunbird.
13. Purple Sunbird.
14. Peacock.
15. Greater cow call.
16. Short eared owl.
17. Barn swallow.
18. Wire tailed swallow.
19. Long tailed Shrike.
20. Laughing dove.
21. Red vented bulbul.
22. Un id pipit.
23. Montaguse harrier.
24. Grey heron.
25. Jungle crow.
26. House crow.
27. Northern Shoveller.
28. Rose ringed parakeet.
29. Pond heron.
30. Iora.
31. Marsh harrier.
32. Bee eater.
33. Common Myna.
34. Pied Bushchat.
35. Blyth's reed warblur.
36. Plain prenia.
37. Green sandpiper.
38. Bar headed goose.
39. Chestnut bellied sandgrouse.
40. Crown headed gull.
41. Green shank.
42. Spotted sandpiper.
43. Glossy ibis.
44. Kentesh plover.
45. Little stint.
46. Brown shrike.
47. Black ibis.
48. Black drango.
49. Stone chat.
50. Black tailed godwit.
51. Rufous tailed lark.
52. Southern grey shrike.
53. Brahmini Myna.
54. Indian Roller.
55. Pied crested cuckoo.
56. Little egret.
57. White brested water hen.

Sewing Diary with Allure

Hello,

It has been a long time since I last blogged. In this time, I learned few things like sewing, baking, quilling and also tested few diet routines. From the past one year, I am stitching my own  dresses. I always had the wish to share my sewing experiences with you all. In the meanwhile, I did a lot of practice to stitch a decent dress.Here is my first attempt at sharing my sewing ideas.

 Allure from Usha Janome

To make a dress more appealing one needs to give proper final touches like piping, making pleats, adding lace to the frock etc. The pain comes in doing piping neatly in a prefessional way. It's not only time consuming but even a slight disturbance while sewing spoils the whole look. There is an old saying that a lazy man will have more ideas on how to do a work easier. That is where you have foots for sewing machines. Now you may be wondering that what is meant by foot?



A foot is a plate which you attach to the sewing machine. Typically it is attached to the rod near the needle, so that the needle comes in the middle of the plate to give stitches to the cloth.A foot is a handy accessory for the people who aim for perfection. Foots play a major role in stitching. Without the foot we cannot stitch anything in a sewing machine  and it's the place where the two threads join together and gives stitching.Allmost all sewing machines comes with Basic foot along with some accessories.




First few months I tried with basic foot and felt that I need a bit more perfection while doing things like bias binding, piping, pleats and making an applique design.There I felt the need for foots. I purchased foots like piping, 1/4th seam, piping and a few more online.The perfection which comes from the specialised foots makes these foots really worth investing.



As foots make a difference in sewing so as pattern making, Pattern making needs a lot of creativity to imagine how the dress should look like. Before I jump directly into pattern making, I would like to share about some  common foots which I use in sewing. Believe me, it's worth having these foots at home. One foot which I admire more is "All purpose foot".  It  is just awesome, I stitched my son's  torn shoe velcro with the help of this foot.



Here are some of the foots which I am currently using.

                                       

                                   

         

Zig-Zag foot

In my previous post, I had explained about sewing machine foots. Here is my attempt to introduce you to one such foot. Here comes the first one called as All purpose foot.

             

                                    All purpose Foot or Zig -Zag foot or Basic foot
                                                  
Zig-Zag foot - All purpose foot- Basic foot

Here comes the first foot called as All-Purpose foot or zig-zag foot. I prefer to call it as a zig-zag foot. It's called as  All Purpose foot because, you can stitch with this  foot from straight stitch to zig-zag stitch.This foot is used to sew on bulky layers of fabric, to do bulky seams, and it is very useful on stitching textured fabrics like denim, fleece, velvet etc. For beginners do use 1/4 seam foot to do a straight stitch. General settings for All purpose foot depends on the thickness of the material which you are using and the length of the stitch one needed. But for general fabric like cotton I go with stitch length in between 2-3, Pattern selector as A for straight  stitch or C for Zig-Zag stitch in Allure, and Thread tension as 4.