Bead It Like You Mean It pt 1
The basics of beading on cloth: including creating a simple beaded bezel to cage a cabochon.
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 cabochon, or get silly with stacks, the perfect finish for your favorite funky flowers.
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.
