The darn folded paper towers have proven a challenge all by their selves. Each tower requires one square of coloured paper. I chose to use four shades of red, purple, and gold as my colours. Each colour of paper was cut into 1", 3/4", 5/8" and 1/2" squares. I folded a good selections of each and stitched some of them down.
Oh! Oh! Not liking this! But I did like the corner where the towers had been turned upside down and beaded. After thinking a bit, I decided the space might look better if the upside down towers were used in the whole area. But that would mean cutting a whole bunch more tiny 1/2" squares and getting rid of the other sizes. I really dislike folding those tiny squares, and my arthritic fingers aren't too pleased with the idea either. But, by working on nothing but that task, and working for only a short period at any one time, the job is getting done. I can manage about 12 every day while watching the 6:00 news. Here is the first corner finished. I think it looks good and will fit in with future work quite nicely.
One of the rules I set for myself when starting this challenge was that I wouldn't buy any more supplies to complete the challenge. Well, that didn't last long as I had to buy both purple and gold beads. But I was determined not to buy red beads, and sifted through all my red beads looking for beads of a size to use. Here is the final selection. I used some in the above and feel that they do well. There is even a gold bead on one of the dark red pockets.
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