Category: Tambour beading

It’s been far too long since I last posted so I have a bit of catching up to do.  To start with, here’s the third tambour beaded panel (of ten) of the parasol: There are a few more projects to show you, so check back again soon!

The second tambour-beaded parasol panel is coming along – I’ve both outlined and filled in the leaves. For the smaller ones, this is easiest to do all in one go, rather than doing an outline and going back to it later. As such, here’s the upper leaves, mostly just in outline but with one small…

The final flower!  This is tambour beaded in deep red beads, for a good contrast with the yellow and green used elsewhere.  I used variegated reds for shading at the centre of the flower: Then filled in the rest with plain red beads: Here’s the finished panel: I’m pleased with how it’s turned out, which…

Just a short post this one, to show the lower band worked in tambour beading with variegated green beads: That’s all the green done, so next time I’ll be working on one of the flowers.

I’m going to get the outlines in first in tambour beading, and then fill in the rest. The first flower to be outlined was the hibiscus; this is going to be in a deep red – mostly plain but with some variegated beads to provide shading: The flower outlines in the plain red beads: The…