I also beaded on my July BJP butterfly:
This week, to reward myself for finishing a couple of pieces (Midnight Garden and the June butterfly for BJP), I started a new project, a non-traditional blackwork piece from Ajisai Designs, called "Puppy Dog": Just the nose so far... the finished piece looks to me a lot like our neighbor's West Highland Terrier and so I'm making it as a Christmas gift for this coming holiday season. I also beaded on my July BJP butterfly:
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Midnight Garden, a blackwork piece designed by Elizabeth Almond: and a close-up showing (barely) some of the beading detail:
This week's stitch is the Raised Chain (version one) and here is my interpretation using a variegated #5 perle cotton: As easy as this stitch is, I found myself getting lost and having to undo it many times. Very frustrating...
I buckled down this week and tackled more WIPs which were tending to becoming UFOs... I completed the Take a Stitch Tuesday stitch. I kitted up the Crazy Quilt Journal Block for September: I assembled the block for "Bling it On", the quilt retreat: I stitched on "Midnight Garden" (only eight more border blocks to stitch in the two blues): and I completed the June BJP butterfly: Yet I'm still woefully behind... 2012 Color Palette/Crazy Quilt Journal/Bead Journal Project wall hanging needs batting, backing and binding; the July, August and September BJP butterflies need to be kitted up and beaded; the September Crazy Quilt Journal block needs to be embellished as does the the "Bling it On" block; "Midnight Garden" has those eight border blocks to stitch in blue and then bead; the "Roll Your Own Mandala" SAL with Tracy Horner of Ink Circles (there are now seven) has only been printed out and fabric selected and threads pulled, nu no stitching started; and the classes on stitching journals/background stitches from Janet Perry and the stitch guide practicum by Janet Perry have only been printed, but not read! I'm hoping that, with September 14 being a quilt guild work day, that I'll get SOME of this done but I fear catch-up is highly unlikely in the near future...
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