BEADWEAVING
Green Castle
By Catherine Haedrich
The central focal is a similar shape to a handheld mirror. The surreal cab of a woman with a castle on her head was selected in anticipation of European travel. Since castle pastures frequently have sheep, I took that thought and literally turned it on its head by adding a sheep to the bezel. Bead embroidery pairs well with freeform beading, it gives a more organic look that might not be achieved with other forms of beading. If you have some bead embroidery experience but haven't yet combined it with freeform, try this beginner-friendly project. Focal elements will be bezeled and then assembled via freeform peyote and a spiral peyote neckband.
Duration: 5 hours with break.
Techniques: Peyote bezels, flat peyote, and spiral peyote, brick stitch edging for bead embroidered components.
Kits are not required but will be available. Green Castle Kits include the mirror-shaped central focal with cylinder beads to bezel it, two cabochons for star-shaped bead woven focals, a seed bead mix pack and lobster claw closure. Bead mix packs contain 15-11-10-8/0 seed beads, chips and miscellaneous bits for interest. Not included in the kit: Stones 22-28mm (please bring your own focals in the color theme) and the sheep is optional.
About Catherine Haedrich
Catherine Haedrich was introduced to the super fun world of beading by a knitter-cross-pollinator friend who offered a lesson in flat and circular peyote at her home. She initially tried to pass on taking-up another new hobby, claiming, ?I have yarn beyond life expectancy?. Only at the last minute did she acquiesce to the evening?s activities and she is so glad she did. She credits her early experiences with more advanced beavers for giving her insight into what was possible for the future and catching the bearer's buzz early. As a serial crafter, she works almost exclusively in beads these days and admits to beading being the first medium she has been able to design in. Her motto for why she beads is, ?Woman cannot live on spreadsheets alone?. As a Project Management Coordinator she constantly tries to think of better, faster ways to learn and teach and with a Meetup group since 2013, she gets to test the waters on some of those ideas. She is haunted by the fact she worked in Czech Republic three years but was not yet a beadier, a fact she has tried to make up for over the years with visits to Jablonec Nad Nisou. While her husband is supportive of her hobby he recently returned home from a business trip and asked, ?Did you miss me?? When she hesitated (he had only been gone two days), he mumbled in defeat, ?If only I were a bead?. Indeed, if only we all were beads!
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