bezel me this

at last

all of the bezels on the flower garden necklace are complete

it took a while, but now each stone is neatly encircled with several layers of size 11 beads, topped with one layer of size 15s

so now it's time to start adding the "garden"

I have an assortment of green beads in different shades of green and different sizes and shapes that will be stitched in an upright position like little plants -- blades of grass and flower stalks

I had done a bracelet once using the technique, and I'm hoping it will work as well to execute this design idea

yesterday afternoon I finished attaching the animal prints to the fabric for the hand bag, so I'm hoping to get the pieces all cut out today and maybe do some stitching

after some consideration (ok, and watching My Fair Lady on TV again yesterday afternoon), I have decided that the "feathers" on the hat need to be embellished a bit

or at lease some of them do

I'll be using some thread to stitch "feather-y" texture, using the gold strips as the centers of the feather

(I know, not a real clear description -- I'll show you some pictures as it goes!)

I'll be using the same purples and greens that I've been using to do all of the other stitching on this





now that the mittnz project goal has been met, I'm back to knitting afghan squares

seems like there is always a natural disaster happening somewhere so that these are needed

I wonder if Japan is the next destination


time to get to those loads of laundry