All my beaded shapes so far have been created on canvas, and whilst I've been able to create some cool shapes and cute figures (imho - see some examples here), I've been a little limited by the canvas squares / pixel designs and the size of beads I'm able to use. All of a sudden, the ability to embroider free-form shapes, or simply to add more detail to my existing designs, opens up all sorts of possibilities.
But the possibility of freedom in creativity is also a little unnerving, so for a few weeks now, I've been playing around with different designs, trying to come up with "the one" that I think will make a good bead embroidery pattern. Then this week I finally got fed up with procrastinating, and settled on a design to try out. Going with the mindset that it was simply to try things out - no pressure to make it perfect - this is a learning process and I'll see how things go along the way...
Since it's spring, and daffodils are pretty prevalent, even in the suburbs of Lancaster, I went with a daffodil design. And I already had some yellow and orange beads too. Although obviously it wouldn't hurt to buy a few more... you know, just in case...
So I did a bit of sketching, settled on a design and traced it out, chose some beads, and - eeeek! - put needle to felt...
So far so good - let's see how this pans out...
Looking good
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