In my early years of motherhood I discovered myself in determined want of a interest. One thing that was only for me that I did not should sacrifice for everybody else. I used to be attempting to be taught bead weaving, however was by no means very profitable as a result of thread is the satan. It was in my seek for bead weaving ideas and methods that I stumbled throughout an image of a ravishing French Beaded Calla Lily. You can say it was love at first sight. An artwork that mixes my love of superb sparkly beads with my love of flowers. And one of the best half is that they’re made with wire and never thread. I discovered the fundamentals of French Beading from books, however after making substantial alterations to each sample I attempted, I found that I a lot desire to design flowers from scratch.
As a result of I make flowers, most of my inspiration comes from nature. More often than not I’ve to work from footage of the flowers I need to create. However, every time I can get my fingers on stay flowers I take them residence to {photograph}, observe, and dissect. I hint and measure every flower half and report my observations in regards to the flowers and their type in a journal. This manner, after I get an opportunity to make that flower out of beads, I can use my measurements and pictures to design them as near nature as doable – inside the limitations of beads and wire. I’ve by no means been very expert at gardening, however I’m attempting (once more) this yr to develop flowers from seeds so I can examine them at each part of their life cycle. My work tends to push a bit of bit past conventional French Beading methods, and over time I’ve even developed a number of new methods and method mixtures of my very own.
My flowers are made largely from seed beads (tons and tons of seed beads!). I exploit a number of manufacturers, comparable to Preciosa, TOHO, Matsuno, and Miyuki. I particularly love 2-cut, 3-cut, and satin seed beads! I additionally incorporate Swarovski and Precisoa crystal beads and pearls, together with a wide range of Czech glass beads. The wire I exploit to make every flower part is copper on the core, although I select colours that carefully match the beads.
I’ve now been making French Beaded Flowers obsessively for six years, and educating the artwork for 4 years via my web site. After a number of years of publishing and promoting digital copies of my patterns, final yr I printed my first print ebook titled “Christmas Assortment”, which is the primary quantity in my “French Beading Patterns” sequence. It’s out there on Amazon and on my web site. There are a lot of extra books coming! At present I’m engaged on Quantity Two, “Spring Assortment”, which will probably be printed in 2019.
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