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Dreamcatcher #14.

Best summed up as . Not for the work on the dreamcatcher itself, but for putting together the collage of photos. GIMP (and my laptop as a whole) crashed on me so many times when I was assembling it. I was tossing a border around it to finish it up when a crash corrupted the file, so I had to start again. Got halfway through that and then it did it again. The original intention was to have this posted on Sunday, but I just got so fed up with it and was a bit afraid that so much as poking GIMP with my cursor would kill it. Saved several backups scattered across two HDDs before finally completing it.

The thread is much more purple than it looks in the pictures. Those funky-shaped violet beads on the pendants came in a random-assortment-of-beads package that I totally bought just for those violet ones. Bead addiction. It's real.

Time spent: 13.25 hours, 6 of which were wrapping the frame. My usual synthetic suede cord was too large to thread between the web strands. I wanted white and the only option I had that was thin enough was embroidery floss.

Tools & Materials: 3" metal hoop; purple thread; white embroidery floss; white and purple seed beads; 3 round multicoloured beads; 2 violet trilobal beads; 1 round purple bead; 2 faceted violet beads; 10 white cat's-eye beads; 2 faceted blue-violet beads; 3 feathers; scissors; beading needles; superglue.

Description
Dreamcatcher #14.

Best summed up as . Not for the work on the dreamcatcher itself, but for putting together the collage of photos. GIMP (and my laptop as a whole) crashed on me so many times when I was assembling it. I was tossing a border around it to finish it up when a crash corrupted the file, so I had to start again. Got halfway through that and then it did it again. The original intention was to have this posted on Sunday, but I just got so fed up with it and was a bit afraid that so much as poking GIMP with my cursor would kill it. Saved several backups scattered across two HDDs before finally completing it.

The thread is much more purple than it looks in the pictures. Those funky-shaped violet beads on the pendants came in a random-assortment-of-beads package that I totally bought just for those violet ones. Bead addiction. It's real.

Time spent: 13.25 hours, 6 of which were wrapping the frame. My usual synthetic suede cord was too large to thread between the web strands. I wanted white and the only option I had that was thin enough was embroidery floss.

Tools & Materials: 3" metal hoop; purple thread; white embroidery floss; white and purple seed beads; 3 round multicoloured beads; 2 violet trilobal beads; 1 round purple bead; 2 faceted violet beads; 10 white cat's-eye beads; 2 faceted blue-violet beads; 3 feathers; scissors; beading needles; superglue.