Beading Serenity, Day 2

[darkemeralds]

The Dark Emerald Bead-O-Meter

534 / 8,534 (6.0%)

Now we're getting somewhere!





I worked until the declining graph of my eyesight crossed the ascending graph of my impatience. But I got an awesome lamp by mail order today, and it makes a huge difference.

Comments

[talitha78.livejournal.com]

You are just zipping along! Love your feline assistant.

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. He's a big help.

I like your illicit animal love-affair icon!

[owzers.livejournal.com]

*sings* "Bead it! Bead it!" Holy wazoolie! *whimpers in fear of the complexity and patience* Just looking at that contraption makes my peepers quail in terror. You are of the brilliant and skilled my wonderful spouse. Can't wait to see the results! Wowza!

Spazil: "Oh goody! Mommy's asleep....time for me to undo this night's work so she can have even more fun!"

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

That loom frame goes on top of the highest shelf in the house when I'm done working. One razor-sharp tooth cutting a warp thread and I'd have to start again. Which, of course, would never happen.

You NEED one of these lights! Well, I don't know if you need one, but the color rendering is absolutely the best I've seen after pure north-exposure daylight.

[wedjateye.livejournal.com]

Cute Monsoon icon!!

[neroli66.livejournal.com]

Oh wow! Look at you go! Can't wait to see what it looks like all finished.

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

You and me both, man.

It's VERY slow going. But fun.

[neroli66.livejournal.com]

So, does your helper there make it go faster or slower? LOL

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

One good snag of the claw, and it'd be over. He has a long, reliable snooze period in the middle of the afternoon, though. That's when I got all this done.

[neroli66.livejournal.com]

Ah ha, so that's the secret...kittynaps!

[inalasahl]

I am so darned impressed, especially because you had to make a loom. I own one, and I hate stringing it. I would have given up about then, probably, lol.

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

Warping a traditional bead loom is a nightmare. That's part of the reason I sat around thinking up alternatives till I hit on this one, made from cheap canvas stretchers, a couple of screen-door springs, and some screws. You just wind the warp up and down, securing it around screws at either end, in one continuous length, all nice and tight. Much easier.

[inalasahl]

And very clever, too.

[wedjateye.livejournal.com]

What a wonderful photo! Looks far too complicated for me to ever think about taking this up. But I will admire from afar.

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

...says the person who got through medical school. There are degrees of complexity. This stuff isn't anywhere near the high end!

[wedjateye.livejournal.com]

Well, that is a matter of opinion. :)

[sffan.livejournal.com]

I bet Monsoon is just a huuuuuge help.

Lookin' good.

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

He doesn't know it, but he's totally predictable: long snooze in the middle of the afternoon, just when the light is best for doing this work.

Too bad I don't have more three-day weekends. Beadwork of this scale is almost impossible for middle-aged eyes except in broad daylight. I'll find out tonight just how good my fabulous new "daylight" lamp is.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Gee, it's mind-boggling. All that work. *is so impressed!*

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

I have a bit of an obsessive-compulsive streak. This feeds it and keeps me out of worse trouble.

[vampirefan.livejournal.com]

i seem to be repeating myself... fascinting! and yes! progress!

[kispexi2.livejournal.com]

Argh! Just looking at that makes me cross-eyed.

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

Okay, that? I want a picture of.

[kispexi2.livejournal.com]

*waves magic wand*

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

BWAH!

[str8ontilmornin.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous! Are we still on for the ciabatta/compound butter trade? I'm trying to cement my pole position before it's too late.

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

Count on it!