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If you have been reading the new Lark Crafts website, you might have seen some of their interviews with popular jewelry and beading bloggers. These interviews consist of five quick questions, and they give a little bit of an insight into who these beading bloggers are.
This week, the interview happens to be with the very talented Carol Dean Sharpe of Sand Fibers. Carol is a prolific designer of peyote stitch cuff patterns and just happens to be one of the many wonderful beady people that I have come to know through the online beading community on Facebook and Etsy. Carol's patterns have appeared in Beadwork magazine and have brought me many enjoyable hours of beading. You can find her patterns for sale on Etsy, ArtFire and 1,000 Markets. Carol also has a fan page on Facebook under Sand Fibers that will let you keep up with all her new designs and patterns. Carol's blog is also included in my bi-weekly roundup of beadweaving blogs. While you're on the Lark Crafts website, check out their past interviews with beaders Laura McCabe, Jamie Cloud Eakin and Sabine Lippert. Color expert Margie Deeb has created a valuable reference for those of us who love our color wheels but aren't quite sure how to get the most out of them. Her new "Instant Color Wheel Guide" will have you picking out new color palettes using your color wheel in no time. ...
A while back, I had written about Cyndi Lavin's new ebook, "Every Bead Has a Story", all about bead embroidery techniques. The first chapter of the book can be downloaded for free from her blog, and chapters 2 and 3 can be purchased for $3 each. Chapter Two of the book is all about basic techniques and includes instructions on how to bezel a cabochon or stone with peyote stitch, making wrapped loops, and some wonderful and creative techniques for working with fabrics to create one-of-a-kind pieces of bead embroidery. Cyndi gives some great step-by-step instructions for two projects - a cuff bracelet and a neckpiece - along with a resource list and a gallery of designs for inspiration. Chapter Three takes the basic bead embroidery techniques a step further and gives directions for how to make three-dimensional beadwork using bead embroidery and bead weaving techniques. The photographs are good, clear and closeup shots and the techniques and projects are inspirational enough to make you put down the book and pick up your beads! You can read more about the books, Cyndi's work, and find tutorials and more information on the Beading Arts website. Perlen Poesie, the German beading magazine that means, "Beaded Poetry" in English, is hosting an international beading competition. Entries will be accepted either online or through regular mail. ...
Many of my bead artist buddies are attending Bead Fest Philadelphia this weekend, and they've been busy preparing for the show.
Artisan Clay - Kristie Roeder has some gorgeous new smoke-fired and recycled glass ceramic beads, cabochons and pendants in her Etsy store. And she's having a sale with giveaways, too! Tapestry Beads - Jill Wiseman FINALLY gives us a look at her Bead & Button Show stash. (She's at Bead Fest Philadelphia this weekend, too!) Sand Fibers - Carol Dean Sharpe is doing some...um...unusual window shopping on Etsy this weekend. Beadedbear's Nonsense and Complete Waste of Time - Sig Wynne-Evans has some incredible new patterns on her website. They are beautiful Native American portraits. Etsy Beadweavers' Blog - The Etsy Beadweaver's Team has announced the theme for the October Challenge: Autumn Falling of Leaves. MADDesigns - Marcia DeCoster is getting ready to do some serious bead-room cleaning and re-organizing, something I need to do, too! The Beaded Carpet - Mikki Ferrugiario has been busy, busy, busy - and while that's good for business, it's not so good for her blog. Good Quill Hunting - Christina has been chosen as the latest winner in the Sisterhood of the Traveling Beads, and she shows us her takes and her gives to the traveling box of beads started by HumbleBeads. Until next week, happy beading and reading! Beading Daily, the online beading community from Interweave Press, has a whole list of free ebooks available for beaders and jewelry makers. All you have to do to get ...
Mirrix, makers of high-quality, functional beading and tapestry looms, is offering a free webinar on Monday, August 23, 2010 at 8:30 p.m. EST. The webinar is basically an online ...
Last week, I mentioned in a post that I had declared that in August, I was going to finish as many of my UFOs (unfinished objects) as I could. ...
I am finding it hard to believe that it's August already, but here we are, and that means that Margie Deeb has two more patterns available for free from ...
There are lots of things going on in the bead world this week!
Artbeads is having a Bead IQ Trivia Sweepstakes that offers you both a chance to test your knowledge about bead trivia and a chance to win a "Bead Genius" prize package. The prize package includes a $100 Artbeads gift card plus beads and supplies worth an additional $150. To take the trivia quiz and enter the sweepstakes, just click on the picture above. The sweepstakes is open to US and Canadian residents (excluding Quebec) over the age of 18. You can take the quiz and enter the sweepstakes until September 16, 2010, and there is only one entry into the sweepstakes per person. Happy beading!
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