needle lace

 The Stitch Club workshop that I started again with
was by Bridget Steel-Yessop
(it was in fact the second one, but I didn't do the first)
Needle lace has a variety of different stitches
but she taught us one, and stuck to that.

We should first make a square, to learn and try the stitches
then do a more complicated work : an insect with wings !

 
Adding beads into the work was my own choice
and was really fun to do.

After the lace was completed it was taken
off the temporary background
et voilá : lace !

(my next piece is finished, but needs to be stitched on a canvas 
and then photographed)

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For May I still had a task to do for the
BIBABO WILD MARATHON

Because I was late again I was looking for a way out :

no felting this time !!!

I took my wonderful Karisma colour pencils
and did the task for May :

an animal starting with the letter "H"

AND
extra . . . it hád to be in only black and white

This is an ENORMOUS  Hercules beetle,

the biggest, plus the "horn" that only males have
(which speaks for itself !)

is about 17 cm !!!!!
NO WAY I would pick that one up
. . . . .

But luckily I was just in time yesterday !!!