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Once again, I used my ANG Main Line Stitchers chapter Stitch-in (last month) to work on All That Shimmers. I finished the beads for ribbon 4, which is the green one with orange beads. I’m behind on posting this!

The way the stitch guide is written, the metallic bicone would be anchored into place right on top of a strand of Silk Lame Braid and wobbled unless you pierced a canvas thread and returned through the bicone and pierced into same place. The single beads are right on top of a thread, too. So, I used 2 strands, stitched a 2×1 stitch catching a bead, came back up, and lassoed the bead (place strands around each side of the bead and under the bead). So, no wobbling at all.

Ribbon 3 is the orange one with magenta beads. I shifted the squares to create a symmetrical arrangement. Top is how the stitch guide had it. My diagram and my stitched piece is pictured below.

You can see now the color of the beads used in one ribbon are adjacent to the color of a ribbon of the same color. It adds interest in my opinion.