Beads, Beads, Beads

I'm spending a little time designing my next few pieces. So I've been staring at all my beads. I decided to take a few pictures:

Stay tuned for what I come up with. 

Bossa nova skirt, pt 2

The skirt is really coming  along!  I included pictures this time, because I remembered to take some.  I don't have any photos of the individual panels.

But here is one of my excellent pinning jobs on a seam:

 

And a seam!  I'm not as confident as I should be that this won't unravel.

Most (all?) of the panels stitched together:

And all of the panels stitched together, including the last seam to make it a circle!

So, next up,  I need to press the seams open & then start on the waist... which will require me to go out & buy elastic! Then there's just the hem. 

I don't know yet if it will actually fit me.  But at least it looks like something I would actually wear!