Monday, October 06, 2008

973 beads on my biscornu

I spent 20 minutes last night trying to count the beads on my biscornu, but I kept loosing track of the beads I'd already counted. As a last resort I switched to counting the beads in one of my photos where I could at least them cross off as I counted them.

I have to admit that my total is only approximate - I counted around 240 beads in one of the corners and multiplied it up by 4, then added the 13 larger beads from the top, making a total of 973.

I'm very disappointed (LOL) in all the entrants in my giveaway! Most of you vastly underestimated the number of beads I used. However, Monique came closest with her guess of 800, so she wins the prize - congratulations Monique!

I was a little surprised that there were almost 1000 beads used, but only a little as I suspected there could easily be around 200 in each of the 4 corners. And I really don't think it look that long to stitch them all on!

8 comments:

Kitty said...

NINE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY THREE? Good Lord! Well done to Monique for her guess, and well done you for counting! x

Anonymous said...

wow-yay! So happy I won! Thanks again for offering :)

Julie said...

WOW! Congrats to Monique

Rowyn said...

My goodness, who'd have thought it. That's a lot of beads!

mainely stitching said...

OMG! I'd never have guessed that. That's ... INCREDIBLE!

Anonymous said...

Heavens to mergatroid - that's one heck of a lot of beads to sew on - and to count! But I guess for the "top geek", keeping count of that many numbers is easy!

:)

Mrs Moog said...

Blimey!! Well done Monique and well done you for sewing them all on!!

xxx

hohla said...

Beautifully! Bravo!!!