fancy beadchain class, 3/15/03
Mar. 17th, 2003 03:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jinianBarb Switzer (who is way cool and has this wonderful hair) taught me to make this bracelet on Saturday at Fusion Beads.
Barb is a good teacher, patient and personable. She's living in northern California now, so people here and there should keep an eye out for her classes. This technique is the main thing she teaches, since she invented it. She's got one on embellished right-angle weave that looked like a lot of fun, too.
This design is a little bit in the "throw money at it" school of making things pretty -- expensive crystals, lots of silver separators, fancy clasp -- but I can mitigate that by buying supplies in bulk. And it turns out you need much less silver wire than the prep sheet claimed, so I can make plenty more links with their overpriced 22-gauge. The clasp is actually worth the price; see the safety catch? Next time I make one, though, I'm definitely shopping around for beads and getting separators from Marilee Layman.
Barb is a good teacher, patient and personable. She's living in northern California now, so people here and there should keep an eye out for her classes. This technique is the main thing she teaches, since she invented it. She's got one on embellished right-angle weave that looked like a lot of fun, too.
This design is a little bit in the "throw money at it" school of making things pretty -- expensive crystals, lots of silver separators, fancy clasp -- but I can mitigate that by buying supplies in bulk. And it turns out you need much less silver wire than the prep sheet claimed, so I can make plenty more links with their overpriced 22-gauge. The clasp is actually worth the price; see the safety catch? Next time I make one, though, I'm definitely shopping around for beads and getting separators from Marilee Layman.
