Merlie Immortalized in Beads

Since Merlie is so enamored with my bead weaving, I decided he deserved to be immortalized in beads.  And being uniformly dark, he makes an excellent bead tapestry subject.

I took this picture:

And made into a bead pattern.  It's much smaller than the Red Victorian Lady.  It's only 6x6 and is 91 rows long.  I think there are about 71 rows left to do.  I can do two rows in this tapestry in the same time I can do one row on the Red Victorian Lady.  This is what Merlie's Tapestry looks like now: