My new project

I'm taking a mosaics course and this is my first project - a decorated paving stone. I've decided to use a koru design in earth shades as it's going in the garden. As the koru is based on the shape of an unfurling fern frond I think it'll fit in well. Here is the paving stone with the main design sketched in



And here it is with the border. All I can say is it takes a lot longer than you think - I spent one whole class just cutting out the various squares for the border and didn't even get around to gluing them! The next stage is to cut (or rather smash) pieces for the koru which will be a lot more complicated with all those curves.