May BJP 2011

This piece of fabric was given to me by a good friend Janita.  It is beautiful Pakistani cotton with a lovely brown border.  I used a lot of my favorite and more costly beads on it, nothing else would do it justice.

here is a close up of the brown banding.

and a lovely charm my sister Stacia sent to me in a box of goodies.

Have a lovely day! xx
Analisa

Bead Embroidery Basics

This is a great tutorial on bead embroidered jewelery such as cuffs or neck cuffs.  Enjoy!

April BJP

Here is my submission for my April Bead Journal Project.  As I said before I got a little side tracked with my cross stitching and other interests.  This lovely fabric is from a fairy series and these are all just wings.  I think the colors are beautiful.  I never have a plan when I start these squares I choose the fabric piece first and then I prepare it by basting it to a felt backing.  I then proceed to stare at it until something comes to me.  I hope you enjoy this one.  May square is started so stay tuned in the next week or so it will be posted.  Have  a lovely day! XOXO

A Little Surfing.......

I know you guys were wondering where my BJP for April is and I have to confess its still only half way finished. You see I met a new friend (Janita) who has enabled me terribly!  She is wonderfully creative in so many ways, but my down fall was that she encouraged me to cross stitch on linen.  Well that opened a whole new can of worms that started a stitching project we all are working on together.  I cant show you yet what it is until its finished. I know sorry!

 Take a look at Janita's fabulous blog and don't forget to scroll down and see her drawings.  http://janitamantel.blogspot.com/

Sylvia's Freebies is a great blog!  She has lovely designs and her finishings are very pretty! http://syku66.blogspot.com/search/label/Freebies

Another of my favorite blogs to follow is The Worlds Largest Collection of Smalls.  this site is packed with lovely little finishes and often times where you can find them.  I love the fact that it has so many wonderful ideas on how to finish your little masterpieces.  Great ideas for gift giving!  http://theworldslargestcollectionofsmalls.blogspot.com/

Well I wish you all a fantastic day and see you son!

Analisa

A little taste of Spring.

Arbre du Printemps

Here is a beautiful little gift I made for my new friend Janita.  It is a free chart I found on this wonderful stitching blog  called Jardin Prive'.  It can be found here http://jardinprive.com/index.php?page=gratuit she has beautiful designs and produces wonderful creations herself.

I want to thank Janita for the lovely pictures she took of it, and hope she enjoyed this token of friendship.

Have a wonderful day!

Analisa

March Bead Journal Project

Here is my contribution for March.  Again I embroidered leaves and stems.  Added felt hearts and colored beads for the flowers and then an overall beading in green.
Any ideas on how I can finish these 4x4 squares?
Thanks for looking, Analisa

sorry about the horrible images my camera is crap! lol

Arabic Designs

I have become very fascinated lately with Arabic design specifically those with one continuous line for the design। I found the design I wanted to try and here are the results.

  I thought it might intrest someone on the process of how I did this.

 This is my design taped to a window to transfer onto my fabric। I chose a poly/cottton blend off white shirting। Don't know why I had shirting but I do

I backed my design with a very thin quilt batting because I had planned to do some shadow quilting to match the design.

Here are the beautiful beads I got as a gift from my sister who sent me a lovely package in the mail with all things beady and good! They remind me of mosaic colors! I took them off the sting as is.

once my design was finished being beaded I then hand quilted on either side of the beaded design,, with the same pattern as the design itself.....I have said design WAAAY too many times in this post! lol

A light pressing and viola!

For those of you who had the misfortune of reading this blog yesterday I apologize I was having trouble uploading pictures.  Have a lovely day!