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!

Some Lovely Blogs.

Those of you that follow my blog know that occasionally I will post some blogs that I love and feel stand out.  Here are a few of those.
Atrful Dreamer is a lovely blog filled with wonderful creations.  Anne Marie from Toronto has a lovely style and creativity.
http://artfuldreamer.blogspot.com/2011/03/different-perspective.html

Another blog I adore is Kelly Fletcher's blog called Materialistic.  She has fabulous one of a kind hand embroidery designs, which many she offers free.  She has been published in Inspirations magazine recently with her florals. Take a peek!
http://kellyfletcher.blogspot.com/

Last but certainly not least is NEDbeads.  She has recently made a gorgeous earthy looking cuff.  Take a look.
http://nedbeads.blogspot.com/

let me know what you think of these gorgeous blogs!
Cheers!

February BJP

Happy March to all of you. Where did February go? Here is my contrabution for February, I am still having trouble with the camera and not taking great pictures. I might have to take them to someone to take some better pictures. I was wondering what your thoughts are for finishing these 5 X 5 squares? There are so many talented and creative people on the BJP this year I look forward to your suggestions.

This is a great video tutorial for the cellini Spiral stitch technic. Thanks to Lisa of Indigos Beads. Enjoy!