My title is Heather and I’m an English beadwork designer. I started beading out of curiosity, and simply fell in love with the supplies, with the massive vary of methods, and with the limitless potentialities they provide. You may at all times spot me in a crowd as a result of I like to put on my beadwork!
I’m fascinated by the constructions that may be created with simply beads and thread, it’s like drawing in 3D with sparkle and color added in. My beading life is a curious combine; I continuously journey to show as a result of, for me, the most effective enjoyable occurs when assembly new individuals, sharing methods, and exploring the training course of collectively.
I journey far and vast and a few years I appear to be completely on planes, trains or motorways heading out to the following group of beaders, I adore it! For the previous couple of years I’ve been an Ambassador for Worldwide Beading week, began by the Beadworkers Guild right here within the UK. Many artists supply free designs to encourage beaders to bead collectively, to assist their native beadstores, and to encourage newcomers to assist preserve this glorious craft thriving.
This yr I supplied Flora, a easy flower that can be utilized to show a newbie or to create elaborate beading within the arms of extra skilled beaders. Between my travels I’ve the peaceable solitude of working in my studio, creating new jewelry designs for lessons, patterns and kits. I preserve sketchbooks of concepts and my telephone picture library is stuffed with random snap photographs I exploit for analysis. Beading begins with an thought, a pile of beads and may get fairly messy as a design emerges.
One other means I share my love of beading is thru books and magazines. I’ve written a number of method based mostly beading books, one on Netting, and three on Albion Sew, which is a means of working with picots I devised and that I really like as a result of it’s so versatile.
I’ve simply accomplished an enormous undertaking, a e-book known as ‘Tudor Inspirations’, working in collaboration with one other English bead artist known as Melanie de Miguel. It’s a scrumptious mixture of our designs, every made from parts which are interchangeable, so beaders can choose and blend parts to make their very own combos. We’ll be internet hosting two beading retreats in England subsequent yr, the place beaders can be a part of us to discover ‘Elemental beading’ and discover your entire hoard of Tudor Inspirations jewelry.
You could find Heathers designs, kits, books and upcoming class schedule at:
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