Green for St Patty’s Day!

More rows finished on my shawl.

I am also making class samples for a workshop I am teaching on Saturday about Native American beadwork.  It’s a teacher training session and I am showing the “lane stitch”.  The blue lines on this sample are the lanes.  You stitch rows of beads in lines like this to fill large areas.  The colors in this sample are not the greatest, but this was what I had for beads the right size.  I am teaching using size 6/0 beads (big ones) rather than 12/0 that you think of as “seed beads”.  Easier to see what you are doing in a larger size and I can use embroidery needles and heavy thread.  I have several techniques all thought up for adapting to different ages too so I will be stitching more samples up tomorrow so I can pass those around.  (You can find me on Saturday 1:00 – 3:00 at the Arts for All Conference for St Paul Public Schools.)