This is how the block stood the last time I blogged about it, with long loopy stitches and a big mistake in the middle…
And once you spot an error, then it becomes the first thing your eye is drawn to every time you pick the piece up. So the stitching had to come out, but that made it the ideal opportunity to add the seed beads I’d been thinking about.
I threaded them randomly onto each stitch and let them fall into a natural pattern both along the stitch and with the beads on the adjoining stitches.
Then I went back with the same thread and caught the long zig-zag stitches down onto the fabric with tiny single-thread-wide stitches at each end of the bead clusters, both keeping the beads in place and stabilising the long stitches.
You can just about see the little stitches, but for the most part the bulk of the beads hides them quite successfully.
I used some of my absolute favourite aurora borealis matte delicas bought from ebay several years ago. The brownish ones (called ‘Nuts’!) worked so well I’ve decided to use them in the next block too.
Under A Topaz Sky 
This is beautiful. I have never attempted to do something like this. Will you show us the finished product?
This is amazing, I loved it. I wonder the finished view too. Thank you, with my love, nia
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Well, that was certainly worth making the misstake for! Just beautiful.
Remember that big haired painter on PBS, name escapes me at the moment—he was always talking about “happy accidents.” I’d say you had a happy accident with this. The beads are a wonderful addition.
The beads look beautiful against the rust background. I think we’re our own worst enemies for always noticing the errors we make.
Oh beautiful!!! Sometimes mistakes lead to magic!
Gorgeous – especially the teal/blue/turquoise beads one of my favourite colours).
Took me ages to find the mistake on the previous post but you are so right, once you know it’s there … I think this looks fantastic with the beads on it.
What a wonderful result ~ hooray for those fortuitous mistakes that lead us down whole new paths…and the courage to go down them!
Mistakes are only new opportunities – see what you made here and you can see it’s not a mistake but something lovely.