This is my ode to spring, which must be right around some corner. I designed directly with the bead software. At first I tried to draw the pattern on paper, photograph it and then open it in the software. I hated the results. The black lines got blurred and the colors were muddy. So I put my six hour drawing aside and went right to the software with the help of my Bamboo tablet and pen. Turns out I could quite a lot of control drawing in the grid and was able to pick exactly the bead colors I wanted versus the bead colors the software wanted. This is the result that will be posted as a download to our website next Tuesday:
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Very interesting piece!! NICE!!