oops, I forgot - I've changed my ideas twice for the black bag. The material is a thin black with velvetty sprigs scattered over it.

One of the craft group suggested using beads each end of the bugle beads to stop the likelihood of the thread breaking. So I undid the bugles, & sewed them back on with beads, & continued sewing beads on the stems of the sprigs.

I still didn't like the effect, so I undid it all & put a mesh of beads over the front instead! Its definitely hand crafted as the meshes are not all (mechanically) even. Same with the fringes.

eek, it's after 2am & I really must get some sleep. I'll take pics before giving it away, tho black bag, black beads ....

it was fun & I'll do more.

sandra