Ok. The other day baronesspixie  put out a request for items for the royal gift basket for Border raids, and I had worn out my eyes on the embroidery so bad that I could no longer focus on small stitches. So I took a break and spun her up a 2-ply skein of purple wool yarn.

Doing the spinning was great, my eyes feel much better now.

Here's what I completed:


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Well, this is me in the 11th century Byzantine dancing girl outfit. Grey hair on top and all...squinting in the sun at Coronation this past weekend. I'm suprised I looked halfway decent. I had stayed up all night the night before. (Yeah I know, I'm not supposed to do that, but sometimes things don't get done otherwise unless you burn the midnight ( Read more... )

Well the beading is as done as it can be within the timeframe I have.
There are about 425 Beads on this collar, counting the edge dangly bits.

( Finished Byzantine beading here... )

I've been beading and beading and beading.

And now for the Progress Photos!

( Here there be beads... )

( My weird sleep schedule... )