Hand Stitching the Beads…
Posted by Fiberart7 on February 13, 2012
Howdy Everyone!!
It’s 4:43 am here in the Eastern US. What I’m doing wide awake is anybody’s guess! (Hey, that rhymes – cool!) Anyway, I woke up “bright-eyed and bushy-tailed” (as Mom used to say) about an hour ago and finally decided to put that energy to good use.
The “project” is moving along – albeit, at a snail’s pace!!! My vision for this piece included a fair amount of beading which is done completely by hand. And since I want the beads to be attached with the hole facing up, each bead has to be anchored in 2 places instead of just one; the way you would normally attach them.
I was determined to get into this part of the project, since I can’t really do much else until this is done. So I set up my work area in my fabulous bedroom, and this was the scene for Saturday and Sunday evening when hubby came in…
Hand stitching the beads...
If you remember from my last post, this is what one of the components of the project looked like:
First sewn component
I actually cut out the circle and finished the edge with a zig-zag stitch on my sewing machine (this will not be visible in the finished project). Then I started attaching the beads:
The beading so far.
I worked on attaching the beads for about 4 hours on Saturday evening (very closely supervised by my Petunia, of course), and about 3 hours Sunday evening. It’s amazing how tedious this job actually is…I needed help to stay focused and not go batty, so I set up a work area that included not only my project, but also my laptop and the TV stocked with a DVR full of foolish nonsense.
So, to save my sanity and get this project going, after every bead or two, I’d glance at my FB page to keep an eye on the online world, and/or watch the TV with one eye. This set-up seemed to work very well. So after about 7 hours, this is what is done:
Close-up of the beading.
Anyone have a guess as to what this is working its way toward becoming? The rest of the components can be seen here. You can leave a guess in the comments or on the FB page! Oh, it’s hard to tell the size of this piece – it’s about 4″ round.
Well, I must be off to work…I’d certainly rather stay home and work on my project for the day, but “duty” (nasty four-letter word) calls!
Thank you SO much for visiting “learn how to sew now” today. Please come back soon!
Bye for now,
Paula
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