June is Bustin' Out All Over - June BJP page

I've been cogitating on this for a month now and finally got the pieces together that more (or less) did what I wanted them to do.

June has been HOT this year, and there is a "HOT event this month too: our 46th anniversary. BUT, and this is a big "but", the symbol for the 46th anniversary is poetry and I have NO clue as to how to portray poetry in beads. So I went for a song lyric instead, in HOT colors on an equally HOT square of batik.

This is the first time I've worked with larger beads - and I played around with a red and gold cloisonne bead to attach a larger glass amber-colored pendant (the cloisonne isn't in focus though). Not a great photo --- the beads all have metallic finishes which ended to reflect my flash.

YAY! (Hands waving wildly in the air)

It's finished!

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

Well, they weren't kidding about needing two skeins of DMC 520 to do that medallion in the bottom middle! But it won't be long before I can move on to the sea serpent at the bottom.

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

Four  (and a bit more) pages of the chart finished. I'm dreading the bottom center as that is a motif in a color where the chart specifies two skeins! AAACK!

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

Almost done with panel 3:

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

That octopus took a LOT of stitching!