Back to Basics and Learn a New Technique, Week Twenty-one

Some progress on "Sea Stars"

Bead Journal Project - my May page

I'm calling it "Severe Storm Warning" because, in the first week of May, we had three separate official Weather Service Warnings, each of which involved suspected tornado touchdowns within one county of where I live. One of these was confirmed in my own county, a Force 1 which did in a barn roof!

I didn't have beads for everything so I couched Kreinik #16 braid for the spirals around the funnel cloud to infer rotation, and stem stitch in DMC floss (four strands) in tan to show dirt being stirred up by the cloud where it touched down.

Back to Basics and Learn a New Technique, Week Twenty

I decided to do "Sea Stars", an Ink Circles chart, in DMC floss on 32-ct SIlkweaver overdyed Jobelin called Seaside Melody:

Another WIP Bites the Dust!

OK, it's not error free but by the time I found them, there was no way I was going to rip out and fix it so... fudge time!

Back to Basics and Learn a New Technique, Week Nineteen

Another row of letters... basically just the letter "z" and the borders left:

Also finished April's Bead Journal Project last week *and* cut the fabric for the April installment of the Black Swamp Quilter's mystery row-of-the-month project (beginning to worry that I won't have enough of my dark red, dark green and yellow solids to finish this piece...)

April Bead Journal Project - a little late

I struggled with this one. trying to avoid the usual "April Showers" theme, especially since it practically didn't rain at all here in April and was the warmest April on record to boot. So we got April flowers with no showers!

The irony is, it's raining a LOT in May!

Anyway, here's is "April Flowers":

Back to Basics and Learn a New Technique, Week Eighteen

More letters on "Floral Sampler" but that's all this week...