Sunday, January 24, 2010

Cathy's Bees, Butterflies & Beetles RR Block


To finish my part of Cathy's Bees, Butterflies and Beetles block, I've added a beaded butterfly, a row of herringbone and straight stitches with beads, and a row of pistil stitches under the swarm of bees.  I used Sassa Lynne #5 Perle Flower Garden variegated for the pistil stitches. This thread works very well here because it changes colour so quickly.

I'm using mostly  Delica 11/0 beads which are the green ones in the row of herringbone, and the crystal on the bottom butterfly wings and Charlotte 13/0, the pink beads on the top wings in the butterfly. 

My stash of these tiny beads has grown since I found BeadFX in Toronto.  They have an amazing selection.



2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh I love small beads. Here in my town I end up buying petite seed beads.

Your butterfly is so gorgeous!!! Very nice job!


Ann Flowers
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hetty said...

Love your bugs and flowers! How cute.