>Beading a British Cat

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Bead embroidery on felt. 2" x 2" (5cm x 5cm).

Beadwork in progress.

Thanks for all your comments on my last post! Here's what I started working on last night. Hopefully, it will be a beaded likeness of Faz the Cat. Faz lives in the United Kingdom, and I have been reading her blog for at least a year and a half. I look forward to reading about Faz's adventures everyday! :)

Someday, I would love to do a larger portrait of a cat, but I will start out with a small brooch to see how it comes out. Looking at a photo of Faz, I came up with a sketch. Then, I traced the sketch and stitched it to a piece of felt and a piece of Lacy's Stiff Stuff. I am stitching right through the tracing paper for this piece so I don't make any colour mistakes. (I did make one mistake that caused me to rip out half of the beads I stitched!) So far, I have used 6 different colours, and they are mostly size 15 Japanese seed beads. This piece of beadwork is very small- it measures approx. 2" x 2" (5cm x 5cm). It will be hard to get a lot of detail, but I will try! Wish me luck! :o