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One of the beading groups on Facebook offered a free bead along to help pass the time while the world is in lockdown so I of course had to do it.

We were given colours to use but encouraged to use our own, these are my own and apart from tine silver and gold I had a root in my drawer and used leftovers.

The left hand one is the original pattern the right hand one is exactly the same pattern but assembled in reverse.

If you want a go at making your own the company is DiMarca online and if you follow the link to the website you’ll find the link to their fb page where the pattern is BUT it’s only free until April 9 after that you’ll have to part with your ££ for it

Sunflower progress

I pulled out a few phds and got Andy to pick one and he went with this trouble is I struggle to work on it for any length of time so a few days is my limit but I’ve made enough progress this time to be happy.

For some odd reason known only to my iPad and/or blogger it loaded the pics the wrong way round!

This is the before and shows off the fabric colour really well.

It’s a DMC kit that I bought cheap at a show years ago and I switched from the black Aida included in the kit to Fildais from Sparklies

98% happy dance

Apart from the birth info Elliot’s birth sampler is finished.

It could be a few days before that’s added as Mel is currently in hospital 😢 she has a bad infection in her right wrist and is going to theatre in the morning to have it cleaned out so has more important things on her mind than deciding what info she wants!

It’s not like I don’t have other projects to do in the mean time 😁

Baby Ark Sampler

Bothy threads

Fabric changed to a oops piece from Sparklies
Started March 12, finished March 30 has to be one of my fastest ever

Made some earrings

Couldn’t resist given what’s happening in the world right now

Meet Elliot

This handsome young man arrived in the world at 21.14 on February 12.

He’s Mel and Dan’s first born and my 3rd Grandson

Second finish for the month

After finishing Beatrix I picked up Poppy once more and finished her after less than a week.

She was my Jan 1st last year and I put her down quite quickly to start something else, went back to her in December and put her down again to start Beatrix on Jan 1st this year.

She’s on 32 count opal Champagne from Sparklies ( the website isn’t working right now so no link this time) and I used the called for DMC and Krenick but I used beads from my stash 

I have another post to do that’s long overdue now so I’ll go and write that now and get it scheduled for tomorrow

Ta da

Beatrix is finished :)

The last stitch went in late last night.

I stitched her on 36 count strawflower from lakeside linens and used a silk from now Paint box threads as my main colour and for the highlights I used a needlepoint silk

Thread bear finish

I realised recently that although I finished this last year I never posted the finished article 🙁 and in the spirit of trying to post more I thought I’d fix that

Beatrix update

End of February update

Still loving her

Beading finish

A friend of mine did pattern for a magic folding Y cube and I was lucky enough to test bead it for her with a couple of other friends.

I finished mine just before lunch today.

The biggest challenge for me was having Teejay about full time for the last 10 days after his mum was taken in to hospital while they were visiting for half term.

I loved every bead of this project and I’m thinking of making one for Teejay later in the year as with his ADHD he’s a fiddler and has been fascinated with the cube part of it.

If your a fellow beader and fancy having a go at your own the pattern is for sale with the proceeds going to out local hospice so either email me or leave me yours and I’ll pass on her details