glass grass

the beading of the garden has begun

(and I'd like to mention here that it was a whole new learning experience to get these pictures!)

each blade of grass is either a bugle bead or a size 11 seed bead with a size 15 seed bead on top

and it takes a while to do just this much of the surface -- bring the needle up through the backing, pick up the bugle, pick up the size 15, go back down through the bugle, go back through the backing

repeat.for.each.blade.of.grass

the flowers have a size 6 seed bead under them that puts them at a level between the long grass (bugles) and the short grass (size 11 beads) -- bring needle up through the backing, pick up size 6 bead, pick up flower bead, pick up size 11 bead, go back through flower, go back through size 6 bead, go back through the backing

repeat.for.each.flower

phew!

and so far just this little area has been finished (about 1 square inch) -- like I said, this will take a while

we are now at 54% complete on this project

and that last 16 row pattern section took a while

the next section is only 6 rows, but it is 7 different colors

that should be interesting