Choker development

I've been working on the choker and making small triangles to attach to this. I still have to make the fastening and to add beads.

Art in my garden

Bird man sculpture by Russell (part of his A level work)
This photo was taken last weekend when we still had sunny weather. It's all looking very soggy today.

No work on Distant Stitch recently as I've been busy helping Gail celebrate her 18th birthday - prepared food and house for 14 guests. We spent the evening in our garden enjoying the mild weather. I'm looking forward to getting back to normal routine this week.

Almost there

At last I have joined the triangles with the beaded tassels, with plenty of frequent breaks and days without any stitching. This image is produced by scanning my work - hence the 'strange' positions of the tassels and the shadow round the edge. Next I need to produce some cord to thread through the loops currently joined with safety pins.

Triangles joined with beads

I've made eighteen bead tassels and am now joining the triangles together with them. This is so fiddly and makes my wrists sting, so I can only work a few at a time. I really don't want a repeat of acute RSI.

Further work on triangles

Since Summer School I have been producing triangles for my accessory. These are some of them. The top three show the "right side" - blue cord triangles beaded and attached to the orange/blue "lining" triangles. The lower three show the "lining" side. These were made using two different cords.

The week I am working on bead tassels and cords to connect these triangles together.

Bead sampler

The bead sampler is mounted on cartridge paper, which I dyed turquoise. You can see how I have attached the page to the dowel, so that this can hang in my display stand.