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Dark Amethyst Bead Dress

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Edit 5/31/19: Brightened image to remove yellow tint. Sorry this dress isn't in my possession anymore for retaking photos, it really doesn't capture how wonderfully iridescent these beads are.

Merry Christmas to my amazing best friend, AdidaTiki~ :heart:

This is made from the same pattern as the Sky Blue dress, and is not from a kit. I went out and purchased these beads myself to create this very sparkly gift for her. <3 This is my first time doing a recolor from the kit patterns.

The photos do not do the dress justice. They are given sort of a rainbowy multicolor look to them, almost like too much brown or blue was mixed in. I assure you this is only a camera problem - the beads are a sort of delicate lavender with a rainbow coating which is difficult to pick up. The beads up the dress giving a minor stripey look are not the same - they are square-cut (hex-cut.. angle-cut.. uh.. not round) and give an intense amount of sparkle to the dress when turned and moved. They also have a rainbow coating. Because they're not round beads they fight against the dress pretty often, often making little V's instead of straight lines like I wanted. I have photos of this dress without the lacey fringe around the bottom, but they didn't come out as pretty as I'd like. I might post more photos at a later date, but they also might go into scraps as references.
Edit: You can see all the sparkly progress here: sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos… You can also "like" my facebook page www.facebook.com/makeitpinkets… to see lots of progress shots I don't normally post on dA! The original dress is quite lack-luster next to all that glitter.

Uses glass seed beads in rainbow lavender size 11, rainbow purple size 15, opaque black size 11, metallic hematite size 15, and clear silver-lined size 11. Threaded together with purple One G Japanese nylon. This variation on the pattern is much tighter, more well fitted, and cleaner than my first go.

I didn't cut the time back as much as I would have hoped to. Mom says that's because I did it better this time - if I had done it the same way as before it would have taken me less time, but because my skill is improved, my weave tighter/stronger, it took a more skilled amount of time. That being said... I still knocked off four hours from my previous work.

I packed this under three layers of packaging just to drive her crazy~ I wrapped it in some leftover batting from the quilt my mom recently made, wrapping paper, a box, wrapping paper, and another box with bubble protection and more paper. I'm sure the dress made it securely and without too much rattling through the mail.
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Colors: 5
Bead Sizes: 2
Size: 5 inches sleeve-hem (tall), 1 inch waist, 2 inches shoulder-shoulder, 2 3/4 inches hem
Time: 30 hours
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Hand-Sam-Art's avatar
Nice and sophisticated, very mature coloured too ... but I like the white and lighter-blue version more.