Post #555044 by beadtiki on Mon, Sep 20, 2010 7:09 PM

I'm finally able to post this - it's my 23rd anniversary and I've been relaxing!

Okay, here's my contribution:

This bird is called the Regence Bower Bird - I thought it was more interesting than the blue bower bird:

I had to remove the background of the picture before I could convert it into a bead pattern:

This is the pattern after I converted it and did A LOT of work cleaning up the colors (there were over 200 colors originally!) and adjusting the edges so they looked smoother:

This picture is after I had started beading one way (peyote) then discovering it was too difficult to bead it that way so I started over using brick stitch (which looks like peyote when you turn is sideways).

This is the finished product facing one direction:

Then the other (with a dime for perspective):

After I finished beading it I thought - now what am I gonna do with it?! If I made it a necklace, and then a guy got it...then I remembered it's kinda too big for a necklace anyhow. So, unless you want to make your own bigass necklace, you're getting a sew-on patch or a suncatcher (some of the beads are transparent) or a Christmas ornament or you can make your own vignette to put it in, etc., etc., ad naseum!

"Something, something, something, Dark Side, something, something."

[ Edited by: beadtiki 2010-09-20 19:11 ]