Princess Bubbles Creates

These are not typical of the colors that I like to use.  But oh my gosh!  The texture makes my heart sing!  In case you have forgot I am working all of my beading for this project on photos.  The photos are ones I took while on an outing with my photography club.  We went to an old auto wreckers.  What a glorious way to spend a morning!  I am looking forward to going again in a couple of weeks. 

I added the lace and pearl motif to this block.  I painted the lace first with my Inktense pencils.  Oh how I love my Inktense pencils!  I have all the colors available, no surprise to anyone that knows me.  I am a bit concerned that I could be working on this quilt forever.  I keep learning new things and want to implement them. 

Sharon B. at http://pintangle.com/ shows how to do the buttonhole wheel cup stitch this week.  I have done the buttonhole wheel prior to this.  Adding the cup part was new to me.  I REALLY like the look of this stitch.  Well, at least the single cup.  I am not terribly fond of one on the far right.  I added two rows for the cup.  It looks a bit messy to me.  But that is probably my fault, I probably should stitched a little tighter.

A fun diversion for me.  I did some wire crochet with beads to create this bracelet.  It worked up pretty quickly and I really like it.  I believe I will do some more!

Next Saturday the 27th I am teaching a class on embedded fibres.  This is the sample I have produced.  It looks a bit dark in this image.  I am really excited about this class!  This technique has a lot of potential.  There is still some space if anyone is interested in taking the workshop.

The Italian knotted border stitch is the stitch Sharon B at http://pintangle.com is featuring this stitch this week.  I have not done this stitch prior to this.  I am grateful that it is a stitch that I can comprehend.  The last couple of stitches in this series just looked too complicated to me so I didn't even bother trying them. I have no desire to overwhelmed by an embroidery stitch.  That may sound like I do want to learn and improve in my stitching but that is not what I intend.  I love learning new things.  

I used a pre-made tag and added some lace as well as silk chiffon.  The colors all went perfectly together!  I had a lot of fun making this book.  I definitely plan to make another fabric/paper book.  Maybe not quite so many pages in the next one though.  This book is super thick!