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What a beautiful update and you are making good progress.

I love your projects! And pictures really don't do the ornament justice. Right now I have it hanging on the corner of a picture frame above my tv.

Thank you everybody!

My progress today

Great update!! I love their smiles. It is such a happy design!

Carole

A Fallout fan!!! Love this! So cool!

Very cute!! Nice stitching!

Don't know the characters, but what a happy-looking couple!

Gulty as charged! I do have a soft spot for Fallout

The couple is complete, and my next project is goind to be the worderful ornament kit from PamPam.

Started the little ornament from the kit that PamPam presented me with It will be finished just in time for the New Year (New Year comes earlier to Russia, we have Christmas holidays in January)



Never done beading before, very excited to try!

And - I wonder if anybody else has this problem - when you start stitching something and are already planning several projects for when you finish? Well, my mother requested to have this stitched ---



I already look forward to it, but first I should finish modernizing that biiiiig old website that is my current job (I'd rather be stitching!)

Pretty projects! Love the ornament and the piece that your mother wants stitched. Looks like it will be a lot of fun (anything with a cat, of course, I think is fun)

Carole

The ornament is really pretty! Beading has never been my favorite thing, although I've done several designs that included beads. My thing is that the beads were not always easily contained, and Jackson cat sometimes made it worse. Then a friend gave me a Tacky Bob - love it! Beading is no big deal anymore, and I really, really enjoy it!

Thank you, Carole! I have similar feelings about cat designs

Debby, I've never heard of a Tacky Bob before - will try googling! Pryanik also likes to help me with all my crafts (I actually waste more time on plucking his fur out of the ornament rather than stitching), so it might help a lot. Thanks!

PS. I have stumbled several times upon people mentioning frogs in their stitching. Did I get it right, that it's some kind of a little error, something that a programmer would call a bug?

When we talk about a we are talking about having to rip stitches out because of mistakes either in the color or in the counting so that the stitches are not in the right place. The sound a frog makes is "ribbit, ribbit" (at least that is how it sounds in English) which is like "rip it, rip it" so that became known as a frog and ripping is "frogging". That is an expression I never knew until joining the forum. Don't forget to check the Glossary when you aren't sure of an expression. I often check it because I forget what an abbreviation stands for or what a slang term is.

Carole

Love your projects!!

Re the beading, I assume that Debby is talking about a sticky pad of plastic you can get, it holds the beads on and makes life So very much easier. You wash it and it's stickiness comes back. They are not expensive and worth every penny. The other thing you can get is a bead nabber, it's like a plastic thimble but has a sticky pad on it which picks up and holds the beads. Oh and remember to use a beading needle....

Look fo ward to seeing your progress

Niki xxx

Fizzbw wrote:Love your projects!!

Re the beading, I assume that Debby is talking about a sticky pad of plastic you can get, it holds the beads on and makes life So very much easier.
Niki xxx

That's right, Niki. Tacky Bob looks like a small CD case with sticky on both inside halves. When I was beading Pumpkin Swirl, I put several beads of each color on Bob, each in their own little area. The beading went so much faster, and when I got beads that wouldn't fit on the needle (I hate beading needles - they're pointy and "bite" me, so I use a size 28), I just created a little corner for them, as well.

Both look like they will be fun projects and Debby, thank you for all the info on the Tacky Bob---one of these days I will have to buy one!!

Wow, thank for the explanation and for the Glossary - it is very instructional, especially the abbreviations. I love the "ribbit" part! Amazing how words evolve (in Russian frogs say "kwa-kwa", written as "ква-ква") .

I have looked the Tacky Bob up in Google, it seems like a great improvement for beading work. I wonder if we have something like that in Russian stores, but if not - I know what to buy next time I go abroad. As for now, I will return to my ornament and continue old-fashioned beading work

And this is why I love mini projects! Almost done with the ornament, hope to finish it today

Very pretty!!!