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Tuxedo Park Bangle Bracelet - LEARNING OBJECTIVES
BW1-SOM-06
BEGINNER LEVEL
-- Bead Weaving Sequence
-- Stitch of the Month
-- Lesson: Brick Stitch
-- Bangle Bracelet

This bracelet involves

LEARNING OBJECTIVES TUXEDO PARK BANGLE BRACELET
Brick Stitch
  BEGINNER INTERMEDIATE ADVANCED
TECHNICAL MECHANICS
1. Managing Thread Tension BEGINNER     
2. Holding Your Piece To Work It BEGINNER     
3. Reading Simple Pattern, Figure and/or Graph BEGINNER     
4. Selecting Materials BEGINNER      
5. Identifying Areas of Potential Weakness, and
Strategies for Dealing With These
BEGINNER      
6. Determining Measurements, including Width and Length of a Piece, Especially In Relationship To Bead Sizes BEGINNER      
7. Finishing Off Threads in Piece or Adding Threads BEGINNER      
    
    
UNDERSTANDING CRAFT BASIS OF STITCH
1. Starting the Stitch BEGINNER      
2. Implementing the Basic Stitch BEGINNER      
3. Finishing Off Your Piece With A Clasp Assembly BEGINNER      
4. Creating Simple Surface Embellishment BEGINNER      
5. Increasing and Decreasing BEGINNER     
6. Working Stitch in Tubular Form      
7. Working Stitch To Create Open (Negative Spaces), and Split Forms      
8. Elaborately Embellishing the Stitch, including Fringes, Edge Treatments, Straps and Connectors BEGINNER     
9. Working Stitch in Circular Form      
10. Working Stitch in 3-Dimensions      
  
  
UNDERSTANDING ART & DESIGN BASIS OF STITCH
1. Learning Implications When Choosing Different Sizes/Shapes of Beads, or Using Different Stringing Materials BEGINNER    
2. Understanding Relationship of this Stitch in Comparision to Other Types of Bead Weaving Stitches      
3. Understanding How Bead Asserts Its Need For Color, Using This Stitch      
4. Creating Your Own Design with This Stitch, in Reference to Jewelry Design Principles of Composition      
5. Creating Shapes, Components and Forms with This Stitch, and Establishing Themes BEGINNER     
  
  
BECOMING BEAD WEAVING ARTIST
1. Developing A Personal Style      
2. Valuing or Pricing Your Work      
3. Teaching Others The Stitch      
    

STITCH OF THE MONTH
Brick Stitch
Tuxedo Park Bangle Bracelet
Instructor: Warren Feld

* ABOUT KIT
* LEARNING OBJECTIVES
* PHOTO DETAILS
* 1. Black/White
* 2. Chartreuse/Cobalt
* 3. Gold/Bronze
* 4. Raspy/Khaki
* KIT CONTENTS

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LearnToBead Goals:
- History of Brick Stitch
- Brick Stitch bead weaving basics
- Managing Thread Tension
- Reading a Pattern/Creating a simple Figural Representation
- Increasing and Decreasing with Brick Stitch
- Embellishing above your brick stitch base
- Varying bead sizes to create curvature
- Finishing off the edges
- Discussion of when Brick Stitch works well
- Making measurements when making a bangle bracelet (thus, when you do not use a clasp and the bracelet is meant to slip over the wrist)

 

NEXT LESSONS :

Stitch of the Month
BW1-SOM-07. Spiral Rope Bracelet

or,

BW2-BR-01
BRICK STITCH:

MAKING SHAPES

 


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