| Dragon
Back Bracelet - LEARNING OBJECTIVES
BW2-CRO-01
INTERMEDIATE LEVEL
-- Bead Weaving Sequence
-- Lesson: Bead Crochet
-- Bracelet
This
project is for artists who have some experience
with bead crochet, but want to take it a bit further.
I had seen some creative use of dagger beads in
ropes done with crochet or peyote or other stitches.
I liked the drama. The resulting texture was very
appealling. But time after time, I found that many
of these designs did not sit well on the wrist.
Often, the daggers would not sit straight up, but
would slump or spread out from each other, diminishing
the effect of tightly arranged daggers pointing
upwards. So, too, these bracelets would turn around
on the wrist, the rows of daggers pushing sideways
or twisting. I
came across a pattern for a reversible bead crochet
rope by Judith Bertoglio-Giffin.
The design allowed one color to remain positioned
facing the wrist, and the other color facing outward.
I wondered what would happen if I incorporated the
dagger beads in this 3-3-3-4 pattern. This worked.
Another
dilemma I wanted to confront in this project, is
how to attach the two ends together. In the Introductory
class in this series, we make a bead crochet rope
and slip on a beaded bead to hide the normally messy
attached ends.[There is another technique to
attach both ends with an invisible join, and I save
this technique for another project.] In this
class, I wanted to attach a clasp assembly, to each
end, and disguise this clasp assembly as a beaded
bead. This meant starting the rope using a ladder
stitch. The ladder gives us something to anchor
the clasp onto. In
our Dragon Back Bracelet, we make a rope, 6 size
8/0 beads around, bead-crocheted on Tex 135 C-Lon
bead cord. We create brick stitched caps to cover
each side of our magnetic clasp, and we attach these
covered clasp parts to either side of our rope.Bead
Crochet uses a "slip-stitch", moreso than
a specific "crochet-stitch." Success depends
as much on your ability to manage the stitching
and all the parts, using both hands, as it does
on mastering the basic technique.
| LEARNING
OBJECTIVES |
DRAGON
BACK BRACELET
BW2-CRO-01 |
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BEGINNER |
INTERMEDIATE |
ADVANCED |
| TECHNICAL
MECHANICS |
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Managing Thread Tension |
BEGINNER |
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Holding Your Piece To Work It |
BEGINNER |
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Reading Simple Pattern, Figure and/or Graph |
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INTERMEDIATE |
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Selecting Materials |
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INTERMEDIATE |
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5.
Identifying Areas of Potential Weakness, and
Strategies for Dealing With These |
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INTERMEDIATE |
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Determining Measurements, including Width and
Length of a Piece, Especially In Relationship
To Bead Sizes |
BEGINNER |
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Finishing Off Threads in Piece or Adding Threads |
BEGINNER |
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| UNDERSTANDING
CRAFT BASIS OF STITCH |
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Starting the Stitch |
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INTERMEDIATE |
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Implementing the Basic Stitch |
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INTERMEDIATE |
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Finishing Off Your Piece With A Clasp Assembly |
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INTERMEDIATE |
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Creating Simple Surface Embellishment |
BEGINNER |
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Increasing and Decreasing |
BEGINNER |
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Working Stitch in Tubular Form |
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INTERMEDIATE |
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Working Stitch To Create Open (Negative Spaces),
and Split Forms |
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Elaborately Embellishing the Stitch, including
Fringes, Edge Treatments, Straps and Connectors |
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Working Stitch in Circular Form |
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Working Stitch in 3-Dimensions |
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| UNDERSTANDING
ART & DESIGN BASIS OF STITCH |
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Learning Implications When Choosing Different
Sizes/Shapes of Beads, or Using Different Stringing
Materials |
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INTERMEDIATE |
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Understanding Relationship of this Stitch in
Comparision to Other Types of Bead Weaving Stitches |
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INTERMEDIATE |
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Understanding How Bead Asserts Its Need For
Color, Using This Stitch |
BEGINNER |
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Creating Your Own Design with This Stitch, in
Reference to Jewelry Design Principles of Composition |
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Creating Shapes, Components and Forms with This
Stitch, and Establishing Themes |
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INTERMEDIATE |
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| BECOMING
BEAD WEAVING ARTIST |
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Developing A Personal Style |
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Valuing or Pricing Your Work |
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Teaching Others The Stitch |
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BEAD
WEAVING
Bead Crochet
Dragon
Back Bracelet
Instructor:
Kathleen Lynam
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ABOUT KIT
* LEARNING OBJECTIVES
* PHOTO DETAILS
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1. Palette: Turquoise
Luster
* KIT CONTENTS
* ORDER INSTRUCTIONS
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Goals:
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Using a crochet bead pattern with different bead
shapes and sizes
- Implementing a reversible bead crochet pattern
which allows for easy wearability
- How to add more beads, after you have begun your
rope
- Discussion of two approaches for starting and
ending a bead crochet rope
- Making bead woven, brick stitched caps to cover
a magnetic clasp
- Attaching a bead woven, brick-stitched clasp assembly,
which functions, in appearance, as a beaded bead
Prerequisites:
-
Orientation To Beads & Jewelry Findings
- BW1-CRO-01
BEAD CROCHET:
Introduction to Bead Crochet Ropes: Bangle Bracelet,
or, previous experience with Bead Crochet Ropes
- Familiarity with brick stitch
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