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Over the weekend, I did a lot of beadwork! I worked on smoothing out the circular windows on my beaded Beatles Yellow Submarine. If you remember, the Magatamas crowded the red seed beads, and distorted the shape of the borders around the windows.

Using a new piece of thread and some matte transparent red seed beads, I did one row of peyote stitch around each window to see if it would help. Below, you can see the first one I did:

In the next photo, the four windows on the left are peyote-stitched, and the second four are not. Can you see the difference??

And, here are all eight:

I think it helps, although they are still not perfect. But, what is, really? The original image of the Yellow Submarine is very childlike, so maybe a little imperfection works. Also, in the above photo, you'll also see that I've done a little layering on the upper-half of the sub with Delicas. I think it helps the eye to differentiate between the two cream colours.

Now, back to beading. I still have some more layering to do...