Thanksgiving is behind us and the frenzy of the holidays is here in full force. Between decorating and wrapping and gifting and eating it’s time to start another Mystery Class. I chose a beautiful Christmas Stocking by Tapestry Fair for our holiday mystery. It’s on 13ct and has lots of potential for stitches and of […]
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Time to start planning your Holiday Stitching…..
So here we are in early October and it’s time to seriously start thinking about our holiday stitching. Allow me to introduce our Christmas Mystery. Yes, we are going to do a full size stocking for the 2014 Christmas Mystery! I love this stocking from Tapestry Fair. There are so many fun spots for stitches, […]
Too Much Fun!
It’s just big enough to pack a punch and small enough to not be intimidating, that’s the third panel of The Count by Tapestry Fair. The background is nice big stitches with fun threads. Those stitches take some time, but then… oh my! Each little icon is a gem will get you excited about a […]
Who Goes There?
Lesson two of the wonderful bat, the Count by Tapestry Fair shipped about a week ago. In this lesson we stitched the spooky haunted house. There’s lots of detail in this panel. I love the background stitch. Thank goodness I have a stash of goodies. I knew one day I would need those pumpkin […]
The Count Flies In
Allow me to introduce the Count. He is a super cute dimensional bat designed by Tapestry Fair. I fell in love with him the moment I saw him. I had to stitch him, right? Here he is assembled from a blank painted canvas and stuffed body. He is a monthly club at Bedecked and Beadazzled. […]
The Pharoah Dog
The Pharoah Dog is the latest and greatest canvas from Tapesty Fair. Now you know my current love affair with Tapestry Fair canvases. First there was Bastet, the most beautiful Egyptian cat. She was so fun to stitch. Yes, a million beads, but what’s not to like about a million beads on a black […]
The Count
How could I resist? I saw this great big dimensional bat and knew he had to be ours for a club! The canvases are designed by Tapestry Fair. Remember Bastet, the egyptian cat? With that collaboration in our history, you know this is going to be super fun. This is a stuffed, dimensional bat. 11″ […]
The Goddess Returns
Bastet is back from the framer! We have two entirely different versions to share! Mats and frame in a traditional format vs a two tiered color and black frame. So, cool. Bastet, the Egyptian Cat Goddess by Tapestry Fair was our first Mystery Class for 2013! If you missed her, it’s not too late. […]
What did you do yesterday?
Here’s just one of the more fun things we did at the shop yesterday. Emily and I pulled threads and wrote a stitchguide for Con Su Tortugas by Tapestry Fair. It’s got a a lot of fun threads and beads as you can see. Lots of fun stitches, open fun backgrounds. It will be on […]
National Bastet Day
I am officially declaring today as Bastet Day! Let’s make it a National Holiday. The last stitch just went in my canvas and I am delighted. Off to the framer she goes. She’s a perfectly glamorous feline all beaded and bedecked! If you haven’t finished stitching your Bastet, today’s the day to stitch away. […]
Jewels Fit For A Goddess!
Today was the last class of Bastet the Egyptian Cat Goddess. She was a huge undertaking as a Mystery Class. I try not to do canvases that are this large but this one was well worth the effort. I still have a little more to do and will post her glamor shots when she is […]
Beaded Messages
It’s fun to wonder what the hieroglyphics on the Egyptian Cat Canvas mean. Now thanks to my Hieroglyphic Alphabet Decoder we can decipher the mystery. On the left we have A Eagle Z Cloth N Water N Water R Mouth J Cobra So perhaps an Eagle was caught in a cloth, fell into lots of […]
Barbara’s Belleza
Wowza! One word says it all. Take an exceptional canvas, add threads and stitch choices by the one and only Brenda Hart, add patience and beautiful stitching by Barbara and a few more stellar ideas and you have a knock out piece fit not only for the Day of the Dead celebrations but any room […]
Jeweled Lotuses
Ready for the reveal? Today was the third lesson of Bastet our Egyptian Cat Mystery Class! We Bedecked, Bejeweled and Beadazzled the lotuses. So fun! We attached different types of beads with different techniques and beautiful threads. There are two lotuses on the canvas, each at a 45 degree angle so each section of […]
Hieroglyphics
Sometimes challenges are good. I challenged myself to create something new and different for the second lesson of Bastet, our Egyptian Cat Goddess. The background is big and open with beautiful shading ranging from golds to oranges to rusts. I auditioned lots of traditional stitches, darning patterns, woven stitches, laid fillings. Many worked but they […]
The Goddess Is Here!
Bastet, the Egyptian Cat Goddess has joined our ranks today. She is svelte and gracious and exudes elegance and grace. In ancient Egypt she was the goddess of protection against contagious diseases and evil spirits. So maybe while we work on her she will protect us from the last of the flu season :-) Today […]
Journey Back in Time with me
We’re halfway through our current mystery class the Zecca Snowman and having a wonderful time. He’s happy and sweet and kinda quirky. You can see all the mysteries that have happened at Bedecked and Beadazzled including the progress we’ve made so far on the snowman by clicking here. It’s time to start thinking about the […]
