Celtic Wolf - WIP post 31 + Announcement

Monday saw the end of the embroidery and the start of the beading - or so I thought. As it turned out I had trouble working from top to bottom and getting the beads to stay even slightly flat and close together so I ripped it all out and started again - at the bottom. This went much better and I was able to slowly start adding beads. I can only do a few at a time as otherwise my back lets me know in no uncertain terms that this is not on and threatens to go on strike.

This is how I sit and bead, which gives me both hands free to do so - this is good as I need one hand to hold the bead where I want it and the other for my needle. You are of course wanting to see the progress since I restarted - it's a grand total of 32 beads - not much unfortunately but I'm sure things will speed up once I'm feeling better and have done a few hundred more.

As you can see it's not all that much, but it's progress none the less. As the beading will be so much slower I am going to reduce the number of posts about Wolf but that will give me space to talk about the things I stitch in the evening after the beading "window" is over.

A sneak preview of the back & colours used.

If you thought that was the announcement then I'm afraid you were wrong! I have decided to start sharing a pattern a month to make a scissor fob, the idea for me is to have something that's small, portable and easy(ish) to make - it may be single or double sided but it will have a free pattern to make the sample I will show and I'll try and include finishing instructions as well. The best part of these patterns will be that you can choose to do them in the colours I chose or use whatever you have lying around or a new thread you want to try out, after all a small fob is perfect to experiment with!

See you tomorrow - with something else - not sure what myself lol.