New Techniques - Beaded Wire Crochet and Making Paper Beads

***Delayed posting...This was actually August 2013***


What a busy week this week...and it's not over yet...starting with the +Austin Bead Society meeting on Monday, 26 August 2013.

A little messy, but...still learning

Not a really good shot, but random beads

Much better photo

During the meeting, one of our members provided us instruction on how to make beaded wire crochet jewelry.  Of course, I was running around like a chicken without its head and didn't get to participate in the instruction, but really wanted to learn...so off I went on a YouTube search and found what I needed to be able to make a piece that I was happy with. Knowledge of crocheting helped me and having worked bead crochet with cord I was familiar with the steps.  What I lacked was knowledge of how to finish the piece.  Tell me what you think? 

Later that week, the Jems and I had a Meetup where the project of the evening was learning to make paper beads.  After pouring over YouTube videos and Google searches...we set about to the business of making paper beads...we didn't do so bad...

Who could imagine that with paper, toothpicks, glue and Mod Podge, you could create some awesome things...+Suzy and I both decided to use scrapbook paper to make as our bead source and here's some of the finished beads.