Michigan embroidery project

I had in mind an embroidery project to do while I was here, as a way to keep the creative hobby juices flowing. Of course, I ended up starting only in the last week. I am working on a large sun design on the back of a T shirt. I have the outlines finished, shown below. Still to do are filling in the shapes. I have a book of embroidery stitches, will use this as an excuse to try out some of the space filling and border stitches. I also have some small yellow beads I wanted to incorporate, but I only brought embroidery needles and they are too big to fit through the beads to sew them on. I'll see if I can find a needle at a local store when I am in Toronto next week.