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(Semi-beaded Boston Green Line trolley car. 19" x 7". Work in progress.)
Can you believe I'm still working on the same section of this beaded trolley?? I wanted to be done with this yesterday, but no such luck. I guess my mind works faster than my beading needle does...
Anyways, here's one for all you MIT Mathematics majors out there. I'm stitching 5 white seed beads at a time. When strung, five Czech seed beads measure approx. 0.25"... I've already stitched approx. 9 horizontal rows at 16" apiece, and 45 vertical rows (in between the windows) at 1" apiece, and 21 vertical rows at 1.25" apiece. The empty space I need to finish beading measures approx. 14" long by 3/8" at the center (please refer to the photo). Calculate that, then tell me how many white seed beads I will have stitched by the time I am finished with this section of my beaded trolley car... And, if you happen to get that right, I believe there will be a keg with your name on it somewhere in the dorm later tonight... ;)
(No cheating, and I don't want to see any smoke coming out of your adding machines, either...LOL)