Monday, November 15, 2010

Luna's Gown



After much work, Luna's couture gown is finished.



The beads are gunmetal gray, crystal lined with silver, and black.


Some beads appear gold in the photos because light is bouncing off the crystal beads.

It was a lot of work but worth it.

Written by Jane/Chilly Hollow Blogging at http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com Archived Yahoo 360 postings at http://profiles.yahoo.com/chillyhollow

17 comments:

Pierrette =^..^= said...

I love it - you have done a wonderful job as usual :-)

Pierrette =^..^=

Peggi said...

Absolutely smashing - great job and worth all the effort!

palma said...

You rock, girl

Anonymous said...

It's stunning! I love the variety of beads.

Nancy

NCPat said...

Amazing! Nice, nice, nice!

Edy said...

How did you decide just where to put the beads?
I love your work and am learning so much from your blog "lessons".

Patt said...

If Leigh is not impressed, you need to quit stitching for them............

BREATH TAKING

Z said...

It looks amazing.

Robin said...

Absolutely stunning! I'm ready for the next phase of Luna.

Michelle said...

Oh my god...it is gorgeous!!

The Chilly Hollow Needlepoint Adventure said...

Edy, I mostly just placed beads where they seemed to look right. The gown is painted so that you know where the lighter and darker gray areas are, so it is easy to put mostly crystal highlight beads in the light gray areas. But I just put beads where it looked good.

Judy Harper says that you can put a dot of white fabric marker over the intersections where you want beads instead of basketweave but there were so many on this piece I didn't bother. I am sure that if you don't have so many, you could dot the thread intersections and this would work very well.

Carol in Indian Springs Village said...

This is stunning! So realistic that I can almost feel the weight of the beaded gown. You have taken this piece to another level with this work!

Margaret said...

WOW! What more can I say?

woolwoman said...

It is simply stunning Jane - It's been fun to watch it materialize. Melody

The Chilly Hollow Needlepoint Adventure said...

Thanks for all the nice compliments. I appreciate it! But they are going to Luna's head. Now she wants a killer cloak, the most fashionable hairstyle and statement jewelry!

Unknown said...

Luna is really something! She is on her way to making a fashion statement. :)

MeganH said...

Just beautiful!