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Palette
1: Morning Fields
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Palette 2:
Afternoon Forests
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DAFFODIL
CUFF BRACELET
About the Kit...
I love flowers! The challenge for me in this
piece was to construct a tiny flower using
one thread.
Bead
Embroidery has been used to embellish and
decorate clothing since the dawn of civilization.
In both Russia and China, remains have been
found of bead embroidery dating back thousands
of years. In more recent history, bead embroidery
has been used to decorate religious items,
formal attire, and household objects.
Bead
Embroidery is such a versatile stitch that
all beads are game! If you were working on
a large wallhanging, larger beads would be
appropriate. Conversely, if you were working
on a necklace orbracelet, youwould want to
use beades that are proportionate to your
project. Within those guidelines, any type
of bead (bugle, seed, delica, drop, etc.)
would enhance the dimensionality and texture
of your piece.
We
create a canvas, decide how to give form to
this canvas, plan a design, and embroider
that design onto our formed-canvas. The challenge
is always to achieve a contemporary, artistic
look to your piece -- one that has a sense
of movement, dimensionality, a use of materials
that makes the ordinary 'noteworthy', and
good technique.
In
this piece, I wanted to create a garden of
daffodils. The challenge for me was to create
3-dimensional flowers using brick stitch,
and how to smartly incoporate these within
my formed canvas, that is my cuff bracelet.
In the Daffodil Cuff Bracelet
project...
LearnToBead
Goals:
-
Basics of Bead Embroidery, including
--- Preparing a brass cuff form, finishing
the inner and outer surfaces with ultra suede
and stiff felt
--- Drawing a template and setting up a design
plan for your piece
--- Attaching beads to the felt, using various
methods, including back stitch, and fringe-style
embellishment
--- Adding a picot edge around your piece
--- Stiffening bead-woven beadwork with acrylic
floor wax
--- Using textile paints to cover any felt-foundation
areas peeking through
- Creating a 3-dimensional, brick-stitched
daffodil flower
Prerequisites:
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Orientation To Beads & Jewelry Findings
- Familiarity with Brick Stitch and Ladder
Stitch
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ABOUT KIT
* LEARNING
OBJECTIVES
* PHOTO
DETAILS
* 1. Morning
Fields
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2. Afternoon
Forests
* KIT
CONTENTS
* ORDER
INSTRUCTIONS AND KIT
See
all available Instructions and Kits
Return
to:
BEAD
WEAVING
LearnToBead.net
Land
of Odds
CONTENTS
SUPPLIES LIST, p. 3
I. Planning Your Project,
p. 5
IA. Conceptualizing Your Piece, p. 5
IB. Measurements, p. 7
IC. Selecting Materials, p. 7
ID. Sketching a Pattern or Graph, p. 8
IE. Identifying Potential Areas of Weakness within
Your Piece, p. 8
IF. Visualizing Your Process, p. 9
IG. Organizing Your Work Space, p. 10
II. Beginning Your Project, p. 10
IIA. Basic Steps, p. 10
A1. PREPARING THE CUFF BLANK WITH ULTRA SUEDE, p.
11
A2. CREATING THE STIFF FELT FOUNDATION, p. 14
A3. PLANNING YOUR DESIGN, p. 14
A4. MAKING THE BRICK-STITCH 3-D DAFFODILS, p. 15
A5. EMBELLISH AND ASSEMBLE, p. 21
A6. ADD A PICOT EDGE, p. 25
A7. FINISHING TOUCHES / MAKE IT PRETTY, p. 26
IIB. Dealing with Contingencies, p. 27
IIC. Finishing Touches, p. 27
III. Summary of Learning Objectives You Have Met
After Accomplishing This Project, p. 28
IV. Next Steps, p. 30
IVA. Suggested Readings, p. 30
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