I've finally finished the umbrella page! It isn't as neat as the original I saw on YouTube, since I don't have the skills *or* the nifty tools of Sviatlana Balybina, and the beads are too large for the pattern, but those were the smallest ones I could get. Therefore the I couldn't make the cords as taut as I'd have liked, but they'll have to do. I took great effort to secure them, so that the kid won't be able to pry them off and - God beware - eat the beads, and I think I've succeeded. I've stitched the page together with the correspondent one (the match-the-colour teacups) and will start seaming them tomorrow. Then the time of the dreaded book binding will come...
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