I only had a few moments today to work on my beading. You will notice that I have the design finished on the page since yesterday’s post but I did that last night. All I did today was about 4 inches of edging. I haven’t decided how I am going to finish this edge yet. What I’m working on now is just the base so I’ll add another row of something soon. I have learned that designing in beads is very different than designing in thread or fabric. This design looks better on paper somehow. It’s much to “eye-like” for me at this point but I’m not going to change it. Getting those long bugle beads lined up was also a bit of a challenge. I’m certainly learning new things though!

I’m still working on my beaded book pages. I didn’t get much done today.

 I did finish the single bead edging on the fringe page. I will be adding a variety of fringe techniques to this basic edge. But I wanted to get the other two pages finished that I have left.

 Here is the page I started working on today. I have the design marked and the cabochon glued down. I’ve never done a beaded cabochon so I thought I’d give it a try.

This is the basic cabochon bead attachment. There are two rows of beads around the cabochon. You can enlarge the photo to see it better. Now I am working on adding the bugle bead row. It is hard to get the bugle beads aligned exactly. But with practice I am getting slightly better at it. I’m off to stitch a few more beads down. Have a good evening and thanks for stopping by.

I’m working today but when I get a few spare moments and no one is in need of me at the store, I do a little stitching. Today I worked on a beaded book that is a homework assignment for my stitch class. I was not particularly excited about beading before I started this book. Every time I have tried to add beads to my work, I don’t like them and usually end up taking them off. This book has been different though, it’s been fun and I actually like the results. I think this is because the book is so small. The pages are 4″x 4″ and therefore the beads aren’t lost on the page. It takes a lot of seed beads to fill up large spaces and even the 4″x 4″ seems big with seed beads.

Here’s the page before I started working today. It’s in a tray to keep the beads contained. I am using Silamide thread which I really like. I tried a cheap thread from JoAnn’s and it was awful compared to the Silamide.

Here’s my tub of beading stuff that I have been taking to work each day. There are some finished pages in the bag that I’ll show you later.

This is the second book page I have done with examples of fringe. The top row is long bugle beads, the second row is “spiral” fringe and the third row which I did today is branched fringe that has been stitched down to the page. I have already done regular branched fringe and I wanted to try out this other method.

The fun thing about this one (it really isn’t fringe) is that you can make it stand up off the page to give extra texture.

I then added a row of looped fringe below that. I think the looped fringe would look better longer but I didn’t have much room left on the page. I started the edging for this page but didn’t get very far. I suddenly got swamped with shoppers down from the ski slopes. Luckily the boss is a nice woman and lets me do what I want. I’ll probably work on this page further at home tonight. I’ll show you the results tomorrow.

What did you do today that is creative? I’d love to hear what you’re working on. If you want more information about A Daily Dose of Fiber check out my post over at The Felting and Fiber Studio.