Beaded Beach Huts and other brooches...

With this summer's craft fairs in Southwold in mind, and with increasing confidence in my bead-stitching abilities, I thought I'd have a go at beading some beach huts to make into brooches.

Experienced bead-stitchers can do amazing things with beads replicating old masters and even photographs in wonderful beaded pictures. I don't have the skill, time or even desire to do that (what would I do with a replica of Van Gogh's sunflowers in beads?) but I thought I could come up with a simple design for a beach hut. The idea is that the little beach hut picture will dangle from a kilt pin and make a wonderful memento for Southwold holiday makers.

This is what I have done so far:

These are to be sold alongside my previous brooch craze - flower brooches: