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Free Guide to Beadweaving:
Patterns and Instructions
to Learn How to Bead Weave
Free Guide to Bead-Weaving:
Patterns and Instructions to Learn How to Bead Weave.
Beadwork Master Class with Carol Cypher
Develop Beadwork Fluency ....................... 1
Beadwork Fluency "Warm-Up" Lessons ............ 3
1) Project:
Beaded Pillow Beads ................... 5
Beadwork Master Class with Dustin Wedekind
Beading Challenged (with 7 Beadwork Challenges) ..... 7
2) Project:
Square Stitch Square ................... 11
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Beadwork Master Class with Phyllis Dintenfass
Geometry + Beads = Ininite Designs! ............... 13
3) Project:
Triversible Earrings ..................... 16
Beadwork Master Class with Marcia DeCoster
{Small} is Beautiful: The Joy of Beading Components ... 18
4) Project:
Crystal Flowerette Earrings .............. 21
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5) Project:
Tangled Vines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
by Robin Cowart
6) Project:
Urban Chic ............................ 25
by Barbara Richard
7) Project:
Fool For Stripes ........................ 27
by Marlene Blessing
8) Project:
Double Twist .......................... 29
by Sheilah Cleary and Sharon Mazzoni
9) Project:
Cubed Diamonds ....................... 31
by Sally Morgan
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Contents
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 Free Guide to Bead-Weaving:
Patterns and Instructions to Learn How to Bead Weave.
here’s no doubt that if you’re reading this, you’re someone
who knows that there’s a special kind of magic in bead-
weaving. I don’t know how else to explain the feeling I get
after sitting down with just a pile of beads, a needle, and
some thread one minute, and then walking away a couple of
hours later with a new piece of handmade beaded jewelry.
Part of the beauty of bead-weaving is that there are
so many diferent beading stitches to be used, nothing is
impossible. Whether you love to do peyote stitch, right-angle
weave, brick stitch, herringbone stitch, or even if you use a
loom to do your bead-weaving, chances are that you can ind
just the right combination of beading techniques to create
whatever your heart desires.
If you love bead-weaving, we’ve put together a collection
of ive favorite bead-weaving projects and four of
Beadwork
magazine’s Master Class columns from some of our favorite
bead artists!
Get warmed up by making some of these great bead-
weaving projects:
•Robin Cowart’s Tangled Vines is an easy bead-weaving
project that uses three diferent sizes of seed beads to create
a beautiful beaded rope that mimics the look of spiral rope.
•Learnhowtomakesophisticatedpeyote-stitchedbezels
for gemstone beads when you make Urban Chic by Barbara
Richard.
•Fool for Stripes by Marlene Blessing is a great statement
necklace made with a simple herringbone stitch tube.
•Beaded ropes never go out of style! Try Double Twist
bySheilahClearytoseehowyoucanusetwohighly
contrasting colors of seed beads in a double spiral rope.
•SallyMorgan’sCubedDiamondsbead-weavingprojectis
a fabulous way to learn how create geometric shapes with
brick stitch.
Next, ind out what it takes to become a bead-weaving
master when you read and learn from some of the best of the
Beadwork
magazine master classes:
•MarciaDeCostertalksabouthowworkingwithsmall
beaded components can improve your skills at bead-
weaving and beaded jewelry design.
• Carol Cypher ofers advice on how to develop your bead-
weaving luency across many diferent beading stitches.
• Dustin Wedekind shares his insights on challenging
yourself to make better bead-weaving.
• Phyllis Dintenfass shows us how geometry isn’t as scary
as you remember from grammar school, and proves that
geometry and bead-weaving can be used to make some
pretty amazing beaded jewelry!
Are you ready to learn new bead-weaving skills and
expandyourknowledgeofbeadingtechniques?Letthese
wonderful bead artists help you continue on your journey
with your seed beads with this collection of seed bead
patterns in all your favorite bead-weaving stitches!
Jennifer VanBenschoten, Beading Daily editor
Free Guide to Bead-Weaving:
Patterns and Instructions to Learn How to Bead Weave.
editor,
beadingdaily
JENNIFER V
AN
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photography JOE COCA, ANN SWANSON
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Introduction
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 Beadwork Master Class
Develop Beadwork Fluency
carol cypher
Twilight in Savannah Bracelet
Limber up with bead artist Carol Cypher, well-known author and
teacher! In her Master Class, Carol describes how you can expand
your skills—and perhaps even your courage—by testing the limits
of various beading stitches. She also provides twelve quick lessons
in structure and proportion, as well as a challenging project that
will stretch your peyote vocabulary. Next issue, look for surprise
and delight as bead artist extraordinaire, Dustin Wedekind, takes
you on a merry dance with the square stitch.
C
onsider for a moment that beadwork
Approaching your beadwork with
curiosity and the spirit of adventure
will increase and develop your luency
exponentially. his is the basis for some
popular workshops I have taught in
recent years. hese workshops begin by
exploring a stitch as we know it, identi-
fying its structure and proportion. hen
we revisit the stitch, altering and testing
its structure or proportion.
Spring Fever
necklace, for example, is an exploration
of spiral rope. At the conclusion of the
workshop, we connect samplers of spiral
rope end to end, incorporating several
winged beads and a focal-bead tassel
with twisted fringe. We complete the
one-of-a-kind necklace with a beaded
self-closure and in the process explore
techniques for transitioning to other
stitches such as herringbone.
Once we identify the “core beads”
and “segment beads” in a stitch,
students investigate its capacity to
accommodate many bead types by
is language. With each new skill
you acquire, your beadwork vocabulary
expands. You continue always to learn
through show-and-tell sessions with
fellow beaders, workshops and classes,
magazines, and books. But realize you
do not have to have a bead vocabulary as
expansive as the collection of words in
Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary to express
yourself through your beadwork with
ease, facility, and pleasure.
More wonderful beadwork projects are available at shop.beadingdaily.com/jewelryprojects
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I never deconstruct or
discard the sample pieces
that fall short of my
expectations. I note my
intention for the piece on
masking tape that I fold
over the tail thread and
put it in a drawer labeled
“naughty bits.” These
bits provide inspiration,
illustrate particular bead
or color combinations, and
sometimes are reworked into
new, improved bits.
Spring Fever
Necklaces
working up samples of various com-
binations. We use 4 size 8° seed beads
for the core and 2 size 11° seed beads,
a crystal, and 2 size 11° seed beads for
the segment to make a 2-inch length.
Next, we use 3 size 6° seed beads for a 1-
to2-inchcore.Finally,weuseasize11°
seed bead, a size 8° seed bead, a glass
drop, a size 8° seed bead, and a size 11°
seed bead to continue the segment for
anotherinchortwo.Severalsegments
feature a leaf-shaped pressed-glass
bead. Weaving through these transi-
tions helps beaders discover how alter-
ing the ratio of core beads to segment
beads afects the outcome, resulting in
beadwork that is either fuller or leggier.
his experience of discovery unleashes
the beaders’ fearlessness and luency.
Somebeaders’irstbeadweaving
experience is making an easy rope/
chain, such as spiral rope or daisy
chain, in which new beads are added
to the work by tying them to the beads
just exited and passing through some
of them again. Many of us were intro-
duced to beadweaving through peyote
stitch, where we added new beads to
the work by passing through the next
bead in the row/round. Even a beader
whose repertoire of techniques has yet
to expand beyond these two stitches
can ind myriad possibilities when
beads and thread are at hand. hey
need only be intrepid to build on what
they know. Once limbered up by their
experimentation, beaders can under-
take each new stitch or project with
anticipation of the array of choices they
can discover.
Let’sstopandsimplylookatwhat
youknowrightnow.Takethesethings
you know and revisit them using other
bead choices. I don’t mean merely color
or inish. I mean bead size, shape, and
perhaps even number. Begin by estab-
lishing the beadwork’s lowest com-
mon denominator, or how each new
bead is incorporated. Are new beads
anchored to previously placed beads
by tying them to the bead(s) just exited
and passing through the bead(s) again
(as in ladder stitch), by passing back
through them (as in fringe), or by pass-
ing through other nearby bead(s) (as
in peyote)? Or perhaps the new beads
Mokume Gane Bead
Necklace
are tethered only to thread between
previously placed beads (as in African
helix). And are they then also passed
back through (as in brick stitch), or is it
a combination of passing through some
beads and under certain thread con-
nections(asinsomeSouthAfricanand
Ecuadorean stitches)?
Read on for Twelve Lessons in Fluency
>>
More wonderful beadwork projects are available at shop.beadingdaily.com/jewelryprojects
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