$45
Bead It Like You Mean It part 1:
the basics of beading on fabric
Course 🟣 33 Lessons
BE INSPIRED and get creative as fun-loving artist Lyric Kinard guides you through the basics of beaded embellishment on cloth.
Make straight or curved solid lines, split or join them, or simply add one bead at a time. Cage a beautiful cobochon, or get silly with stacks, the perfect finish for your favorite funky flowers.
How This Course Works
This course is an online on-demand workshop. You will need an internet connection to stream each video.
Each lesson includes space for you to share your pictures and get feedback from your classmates. The more you contribute, the livelier the class will be.
Lyric will pop in to give feedback on each picture posted. This platform provides a safe space for a lively and sharing creative community to explore without judgment and competition.
Just like in a live classroom, you'll be able to see your fellow students' work and discuss how things are going. You'll get encouragement and instructions from Lyric on all the work you post.
Straight and curved lines
Create clean running lines of beads - solid, split, or joined - following any shape you can imagine.
Single beads and stacks
Scatter individual accents or build playful dimensional stacks for texture and dimension.
Bezeling a cabochon
Cage a beautiful handmade stone in a beaded bezel — the foundational focal-point technique.
Funky flower finishing
Pull it all together on a small fabric flower project - the perfect way to practice every technique.
Supplies from your Stash
- 8" solid fabric for flower
- 8" fabric for background
- 8" square light weight fusible web (*see note below!)
- 8" square thin batting
- Sharp scissors
- bead container - altoids tin, or very shallow small dish or piece of craft felt or suede like fabric to roll beads out onto table
- Optional - Lamp and/or magnifying table lamp
- Iron (only for advanced prep)
Kit (highly recommended) or ...
- 1 16 ct. tube size #11 Foxglove Cottage Straw Needles
- 1 bobbin of C-lon or Nymo beading thread
- 1 beautiful handmade cabochon
- 1 bag of beautiful Miyuki beads: ~40 g, size 6, 11, 15 seeds, bugles
Miyuki beads are renowned for their consistency and quality.
The needles in this kit are sturdy enough for sewing through fabric and long and thin enough to go through the tiniest beads.
Beading thread will hold the weight of a cabochon and won't break as your fabric moves with your beads.
Optional
- You don't have to make ANY project at all during this workshop. You can choose to slap a piece of plain fabric onto some thin batting and simply learn and practice the techniques.
- If you want to create a small flower project, the pattern and preparation instructions will be immediately open to you. You can cut and fuse the flower to the background fabric. Regular Wonder-Under or Misty-Fuse is recommended. NOT Heat-N-Bond
- OR * Applique the flower to the background fabric ANY method you choose - machine, hand, whatever you love!
Here's everything you get for $45
That's less than a skein of hand-dyed yarn.
Live session + all-new on-demand videos included.
- 3 hours of live instruction with Lyric — ask questions in real time, get instant feedback, learn alongside a community of fellow makers.
- Long-term access to the rebuilt video course — Lyric is filming all-new videos and every student in this live cohort gets them automatically. Watch anything again, anytime.
- Four foundational techniques you can start using on your own work immediately — not just in class, but on every quilt and textile project going forward.
- Pattern and prep instructions sent to you in advance, so you can arrive ready to dive straight into making.
- No pressure to be perfect. You can even skip the project entirely and spend the whole session just practicing technique on a simple fabric sandwich. Learning is the point.
Meet Lyric Montgomery Kinard
Award-winning textile artist, author, and was awarded International Association of Professional Quilters Teacher of the Year.
Lyric has spent two decades transforming timid makers into confident creatives with warmth, humor, and a deep belief that the skill you're looking for is already inside you.
She's going to help you find it.
Supplies:
Bead container Seed beads, some smaller, some larger
A cabochon or shankless button
Beading thread
A needle small enough to go through your smallest beads
A quilted sample for practice
Order a kit or have the following ready:
1 tube of #11 Foxglove Cottage Straw Needles
1 bag of beautiful fiesta colored beads
1 bobbin of c-lon beading thread
1 beautiful handmade glass cabochon
2 6″ squares of fiesta colored hand dyed fabric
1 6″ square batting
1 6″ square fusible web
1 6″ square backing fabric
Lyric Lyric Montgomery Kinard is an award winning artist with a passion for sparking the creativity that she knows each of her students posses. She was recognized for her talents as the 2011 International Association of Professional Quilters Teacher of the Year. With playful support and gentle encouragement she will take you through your first steps on a new path, seeing the world through the eyes of an artist. As an artist, author, and educator she transforms cloth into art in her studio and timid spirits into confident creatives in the classroom.
💬 "Is THIS workshop really worth $45?"
Consider what you’re actually getting: instruction from an award-winning teacher. Answers to your specific questions, plus ongoing access to brand-new videos you can revisit whenever you need a refresher. Most workshops of this caliber run $75–150. At $45, this is one of the best investments you can make in your creative practice this year.
💬 "I've never beaded before. Will I be totally lost?"
Nope! That's exactly who this workshop is designed for. Lyric built her entire teaching career around guiding timid makers into confident ones. You won't be thrown in the deep end. You'll be walked in gently, step by step.
💬 "Why don't I get lifetime access?"
Because nobody can predict how long ANY of us will live. I plan to keep the course up until I stop teaching - so "long-term" is a more legally accurate word. You have guaranteed access for one year.
💬 "Do I need special supplies?"
You can use fabric you already have for practice. A curated bead kit is highly recommended and available in my shop. It includes Miyuki beads, the right needles, quality thread, and a handmade cabochon - everything chosen so you're not fighting your materials while you're learning.
