Progress Report Wednesday - Working on Bead Kits

I love this time of year when I can take my work outside!

Seemed like a simple enough thing, when I thought I'd give this a whirl as a regular Wednesday column.  Just take pictures of whatever I was working on that day and post it here.  Sort of like a bead table Wednesday, but a little more  process oriented.

I'm afraid all I've really worked on the past couple of days are beading kits, which aren't terribly glamorous.  On the plus side,  the weather was lovely this afternoon, so I took my work outside and set up at the table out in the garden.  It was much more comfortable than the previous day's workstation, camped out on the floor in my living room front of several windows (it was rainy and that was the best light to be had).

Trying to organize beads into kits and color ways

Since this is my first foray into kits in a very long time, I'd not realized just how long it would take to measure out all of the individual bead types.  I've spent a good eight to ten hours over the past two and a half days working on this. I'm hoping I can speed that up in the future as I spent a fair bit of time deciding upon the exact beads to use in each of the different color ways.

As of this evening, I've managed to measure out the beads for two sets each of twelve different color ways for my beaded beads. Can we say overkill?  I'm planning to take these to the Seedbeader's meeting this Sunday and see which colorways garner the most interest, and then make more of those. 

I also put together four to six each of six different color ways for my Lacework bracelets. I tried wherever possible to match the beads I've used in some of my previous bracelets but that wasn't always possible.  Some of the beads from my original bracelets had been in my stash for ages, and available bead colors seem to change from season to season.  Finding the right beads has definitely been part of the challenge.