Stitch Meditation 36 and New Fabric Beads

This is my latest stitch meditation using Turquoise batik cotton and a rose pattern cotton with a loose weave, bluish/green perle cotton and pink dmc embroidery thread, and fabric beads from recycled scraps, stitched together, and wire wrapped in silver, gold, and copper with metal charms added.

I later went back and added some buttons. Much better, I think!

It's not the best background, but I laid them on my wire and plaster journal, which I put cling wrap on the covers of, to protect them from stray paint and whatever else may escape when I'm working on the pages. It was handy!

I not only practiced wire wrapping some more, and I think I'm getting a bit better at it, but I practiced adding charms and o rings to the wire loops formed in the beads. Kind of tedious when you have big hands/fingers. The charms are a tiny silver seahorse, a word charm that says "hope", gold bead caps left over from a long ago project, and a tiny copper elephant, which I also had to make a copper o ring for, because I only had silver ones, also from a different project. Three of the the beads are new, but one I made before and shared without the charm.

The new Blog format wouldn't let me remove the first picture, or, at least, I couldn't figure it out, but I added the second picture, which is, I think, a bit better.

These little projects, plus working in my wire and plaster art journal are helping keep my mind off the virus and other stuff, plus they are just downright fun and good therapy. Let the dust bunnies multiply! 😏

I hope you all have something to help get you through these tough times, something that makes you feel happy or relaxed. Stay safe!