Hello, everyone! It's hard to believe that it's almost Thanksgiving here in the US. I often find that Fall seems to more quickly than any other season. When my kids were young and still in grade school and high school I thought that was the reason. But, now they're adults and out of the house and I still find that this beautiful season just whizzes by. I try to enjoy it as much as I can. This year it's been difficult to really find time for much of anything. A variety of family things have kept us hopping. But, now it's time for
Therese and
Christine's blog challenge A Time To Stitch. This is the 8th challenge, which is also hard to believe! The theme this time was What's Your Bag. We were supposed to bead embroider on a purse, amulet, evening bag, or some other bag of our choice. I cheated a little. I had made an evening bag with a bead embroidered flap at the request of my friend,
Christen Brown. She was writing a book on different types of embroidery and asked if I would do a bead embroidered bag of some sort. So, I made a little clutch bag out of pintucked silk fabric and I embroidered the flap. Here is what it looks like.
I made the pattern for the shape of the flap and then traced it on Lacy's Stiff Stuff. I traced a rough outline of spaces I wanted to fill and started stitching. I never have a firm idea of what a design is going to look like. I wanted this to hint at an abstract garden surrounded by rocks and stones. The colors were chosen to coordinate with the fabric. Here are some details.
So, there it is. I had fun making it. I love doing bead embroidery. I love making it textured and using different shaped beads.
I want to thank Therese and Christine for hosting this challenge. It's really fun to participate and I can't wait to find out what they decide to do next time.
Thank you all for visiting with me. I really appreciate you stopping by.
