My own handspun from merino/bfl/shetland/bamboo I drumcarded in to batts. Took me a year to spin everything!

Took a week to knit, and first time I used beads. I bought 50g (5 bags of 10g) of matubo seed beads 7/0 in crystal AB, and just started in on the 5th bag. Will admit knitting with beads is fun, I definitely want to do it again!

Pattern was good, although I found it difficult to picture where the stitchmarkers went. I definitely fudged stitch counts a couple of times!

Blocking - whatever I tried I couldn’t get the top to lay flat and have good points, so I decided meh, and went for a flat top!

Will hopefully be wearing this when I get married in March 2017, so more pictures then!