Wizard's Beaded Edge

I have started adding beads to the edge of the Joan Thomasson wizard stand up piece. They must be done before I can add the wired Flair smoke and then stuff the piece, add rocks as weights and hand-stitch the base on. So there is a lot still to do. I thought you'd like to see the edge with the two #16 Kreinik silver threads couched down and the beads beginning to be added on top of that. I am alternating one single pale lavender seed bead from Mill Hill with a group of three crystal #14 beads from Sundance. They don't touch-each group is about 3 mm from the next. The crystal clear beads from Sundance have incredible sparkle while the larger round lavender bead is exactly the color of the purple underrobe. They look very nice. I have about 1/5 of the edge beaded and will continue to work on that tonight.

Jane/Chilly Hollow
Main blog at http://blog.360.yahoo.com/chillyhollow

Elliot, The Summer House, and Halloween

The photo above shows the official NP inspector for Amy Bunger's website. His name is Elliot and his job is to make sure Amy's class models are perfect in every way. And that they do not contain catnip, of course!

Elliot lives with Robin, the webmaster for the Amy Bunger website, who sent me this photo. Isn't he a charmer? The house he is checking out is Melissa Shirley's Summer House. It's one of the home study canvases that Amy offers for folks who want to do directed stitching at home. You can see the real photo shoot photos at the link below. Just click on either thumbnail to actually see the house.

http://www.amybunger.com/summer_house_home_study.html

If you want to see Elliot in action when he inspected the Yellow Mustard House (also by Melissa Shirley), head over here.

http://www.amybunger.com/albums/album_image/6262614/3610741.htm

You can always see the other Home Study projects (including the other two seasonal houses) by clicking on the link at the left side of the page. Sadly, there are no more Elliot sightings there.

However, you can treat yourself to a read of the newest Amy Bunger newslettter by looking for the E-Newsletters link. After that, find the October 2008 newsletter and click on that link for a PDF file to open with the newsletter contents. Make sure you check out the amazing Halloween pieces there. Turns out that Robin, Elliot's owner, doesn't just handle the website. She's also an awesome stitcher and teacher in her own right who is into Halloween in a big way.

Lucky Amy! She's got both Robin and Elliot on her payroll!

Jane/Chilly Hollow
Main blog at http://blog.360.yahoo.com/chillyhollow