Trying out tying some Glass Bead Takayama Sakasa Kebari by Jason Klass. I have a lot to learn, but am making progress, which is all I can ask for.

Tonight I got a little better at matching my material to my hook size and used two new ones (glass beads and peacock herl) for the first time.

These have glass beads, red thread, pheasant hackle and peacock herl.

Originally I picked pheasant feathers too large for a number 12 hook, then upped the hook size to 10 and picked slightly smaller feathers. I only had enough time to tie three, but the third came out better than the first two.

Here is the first:

And the third:

In-progress shots: