Friday 11 April 2008

Water - work in progress - Part 2

It was all smooth sailing... I was really enjoying the progression and the way the design was developing.... but then.... I realised, after having beaded around the whole motif, that I placed one of the large beads in the wrong place!!!!! probably less than 1 cm, but that one cm makes all the difference to the rest of the pattern working. So after a LOT of hmming and phuuffing, and trying really hard not to cry :-) I realised that I had 2 choices... scrap the whole thing and start afresh, or cut the offending bead and its surrounding, re-stitch it in the right place and strengthen all the beads around the area to make sure that none would fall out. # 2 shows the problem and the arrow points to where it should have been. # 3 shows the newly placed corrected bead, the red dot marks where it was.

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I have to say, the thought of giving up came across my mind at least every five minutes... I wasn't sure how to carry on, what colour, what bead, what stitch, what pattern. I kept on taking breaks, I kept on looking through all my bead books for inspiration, still nothing!.... the only thing I was 100 % sure about was that I really liked the colour, so I decided to carry on with the turquoise seed beads, but I wanted to give it a lot of texture to contrast the bugles and the other lines, so I tried a new method (see # 5) and I individually stitched each bead, rather than in rows, I stitched them in all directions filling in the spaces as I went along. I'm very glad I did this I think it works really well.

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Now comes the hard part.... I'm really, REALLY stuck!!!!! The piece outgrew my original plan, up to now it measures c. 4" x 4", so now am not sure what to do with it!!! should I make it bigger, should I fringe it, should i scrap it? I honestly don't know... for now I'm leaving it and carrying on with other small projects, but I do want to finish it!!! I love how it looks! I just don't know what to do with it!!! arghhhh!!! :-)
Come back soon to see how it all ends :-) and if you missed part 1, here is the link: Water - work in progress - Part 1


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11 comments:

  1. Dawn Chastain12 April 2008 at 16:03

    I LOVE it! and I love that you have photos of the progress.You are definately a master to learn from.Beautiful work :)dawn

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  2. The Lone Beader®12 April 2008 at 18:45

    I like the colours. How long do you think you have worked on this so far?? :)

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  3. Unknown12 April 2008 at 19:29

    Thank you Dawn... am still stuck :-) and Lone Beader... I think so far I probably did about 8 or 9 hours including prep, pulling my hair out, fixing, etc.

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  4. PinkPoochDesigns14 April 2008 at 18:57

    I love the colors. I also like how you show us the progress of your pieces. You Rock!!

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  5. Unknown14 April 2008 at 18:59

    thank you Staci! I'm still so stuck, but have started and almost finished another, will post progress of new piece in the next few days, and hopefully finish this one :-D

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  6. Anonymous15 April 2008 at 08:37

    But I still love it, you must just having some bead ideas block?

    hehehe.

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  7. Carol Dean Sharpe18 April 2008 at 00:50

    I'm just in love with this design and the colors (no surprise there!). Have you considered making it the focal point applique for a leather purse or the cover of a large journal? Either one of those could support its size easily. Whatever you decide, I know it will be spectacular in the end. That's just a given. ;)

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  8. Unknown18 April 2008 at 06:25

    Thank you Laarni and Csrol Dean!! Great mind think alike Carol Dean, I have thought about making into a bag, which is what I really would love to do, but am lacking knowledge on the making the bag part :-) still thinking... but thank you for the wonderfull suggestions :-)

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  9. Anonymous2 May 2008 at 19:01

    Please don't scrap it. It is really gorgeous.

    Jeanne

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  10. HDB16 May 2008 at 15:42

    Triz, this is so beautiful! I am so glad that you did not let the "offending" focal bead win the battle. Walking away and coming back (sometimes after a good cry!) is what drives us to do our best. I cannot wait to see how you finish this. Ciao! linda

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  11. Eva Maria Keiser17 November 2010 at 19:57

    Fun to see "in progress"!

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