Here's a link to Aunt Molly's Cabochon Gallery:
http://www.flash.net/~mjtafoya/mycabs/cablinks.htm There's maybe 15
links on how to do cabs
Here are some free graphed patterns dancing bears, a dove and a few others. www.geocities.com/SoHo/Gallery/1216/pat2.html
Here is an angel pin www.craftycollege.com/webofangels/wimplega.htm
Make your own beautiful beads with Polymer clay. http://www.sculpey.com/Projects/projects_FioratoPendant.htm
Artist Highlight: Pat Murphy
Loves the Lord and is active for Christ in her church and community
She is a member of the Ludington, Michigan EMMAUS Community
She is a very talented Beader Bead Page
The Nutcracker for Sara Pattern from B&B
Pat is a Quilter and Fabric Art's person. She is a National Quilting Association Certified Teacher. She teaches a variety of Quilting and Fabric Art classes for those who are interested. She has taught beginners and seasoned veterans. Quilt Page
Pat loves Pets Cats in particular (Amber is our current "watch" cat) Cats
Loves Wildlife especially Wolves & Meerkats she is a fan of Ansel Adams & Georgia O’Keefe. Loves the Southwest New Mexico (Land of Enchantment) She is an Amtrak fan loves to "ride the rails." And finds the rails a wonderful bridge between worlds. Loves Mystery (The Kellerman's) / Spy Adventure (Clancy) and Horror (King & Koontz) She is also a Manic Depressive and has a heart for anyone suffering from mental illness. Go To Her Bipolar Page Bipolar
She is also an angel for hope Angels for Hope
OUR WEB PAGE: http://www.geocities.com/heartland/plains/4134
BEADS: http://www.geocities.com/heartland/plains/4134/beads.html
QUILTS: http://www.geocities.com/heartland/plains/4134/patquilt.html
ANGELS/HOPE: http://www.geocities.com/arthurmurphy/anglhope.html
PAT'S EMAIL: MAILTO:patmurphy@charter.net
beading www.noeasybeads.com/
http://www.beadjapan.net/hollybrace_inst.html
Nepal plus beaded berries to make a Holly Berry Bracelet
http://www.beadjapan.net/DaisyNepal_inst.html
Nepal plus daisy stitch necklace
Looking for beaded flower patterns!
http://beadedflowers.tripod.com/international/index.htm
http://kimberlychapman.com/crafts/bfgallery.html
Hyacinth
http://beadedflowers.tripod.com/international/patterns/hyacinth.htm
Tazetta Daffodil
http://beadedflowers.tripod.com/international/patterns/tazetta.htm
Lilac Tree
http://beadedflowers.tripod.com/international/patterns/lilac.htm
This a free program for color schemes... helps with mixing too. You must check this out
http://www.oken3d.com/html/tips.html
I have free photos to download on my site (this time it's flowers) that folks can use for this.... maybe I should have some beady ones? --AnnieLaurie
http://www.xochitl.com.
Free netting patterns www.goder.com/beads/f_pat.htm
Free netting tutorial net.html
Free bead tutorials ChevronChainBasic.html
Tutorial on making your own headpiece id12.htm
Here is the link to Maria's site wonderful must see! patterns_e.htm
http://shala.addr.com/beads/resources/graphpaper/ Here is a link to graph paper.
Bella on line is a wonder resource for patterns and ideas site.asp-name=Beadwork
Here is a site that does restorations to beadwork, bead knitting, bead crochet, loom netting, and canvas work. http://www.arhyonel.com/
I'm calling all hat makers...and asking you to send me hats for chemotherapy patients who are losing their hair. It is getting warm in North Carolina now, and will be getting warm here soon to...so I am also writing to ask if you would switch gears and start knitting/crocheting/sewing some cooler hats (cotton yarns; lighter weight yarns like DK yarns). We'll switch back to the heavier hats when fall weather arrives. Most of the patterns on my web site can be used to make thinner hats, but you may need to add stitches (and rows) to make the hat large enough. Be sure to check your gauge. I have started knitting the rolled brim hat with (DK yarn...i.e., thin yarn) and am knitting it 120 stitches around...which seems to make the hat a good size. Unfortunately, the lighter (thinner yarn) hats require more knitting to get a hat made...so they take a bit longer. I met my sister's minister who has promised to put my brochures on his church table...and to put a notice in his church newsletter. I have also written to several churches trying to get them to add a notice of this project to their newsletters. Frankly, I am desperate for more hat makers. I would like to ask for you to have placed in your church newsletter...if you don't mind...and if you have a church. Also, you can go to my web site http://www.headhuggers.org/ and print up the brochure which is listed there...and put copies on your church table too....if you don't mind. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Sue Thompson http://headhuggers.org/
Lydia has been working on the beadwrangler website for 14 years. You could easily spend a day looking at this wonderful site. If you are interested in finding a source for more projects like this with complete instruction booklets and supplies, you can find them here
Please be advised that these are free workshops; you can print out the instructions, but if you use them in a class or pass them on to a friend, they must indicate that they came from Beadwrangler.com Also, these cannot be used in the production of a magazine article, book, website, newsletter or any other mass distribution medium. Thanks, Lydia The Beadwrangler www.beadwrangler.com
Instructions on how to bead an ornament www.members.tripod.com/~beadnik/ornament.html
Beadwork tutorials and free patterns http://arleenhardin.com/free.html
Directions on how to make your own Victorian Beaded Ornament http://members.tripod.com/~Beadme/Ornament.htm
List of Christmas traditions from around the world. http://www.virtualquincy.com/quincy/holiday/xmas.html
the talented is Marya LeMieux Vafaei-Makhsoos "Mary". She attended college at Oklahoma State University, minored in Metalsmithing. She REALLY wanted to make jewelry, but silver and gold weren't her cup of tea. Her instructor encouraged her to work on beads by showing the work of Joyce Scott. She learned peyote stitch and hasn't looked back at metalsmithing again. She prefers bead embroidery best-and creates beaded dolls which she calls 'Feti' and beaded paintings.
http://groups.msn.com/Celticat/shoebox.msnw?albumlist=2&pgmarket=en-us
As for other hobbies and interests? Well...she is a big fan of things Irish. She also likes to paint, draw... she is a regular Martha Stewart in household crafts. She can't support her bead habbit without a day job, of course! She is a a "computer test analyst" which basically means she breaks things for a living.
For a tutorial on bead paintings: bead painting tutorial http://celticat.homestead.com/beadpainting.html
Make a beaded tree craft6.htm
Christmas tree earrings http://members.tripod.com/~Shefog/CrochetWorkroom/9.html
Beaded Christmas ornament http://members.tripod.com/~kMoonstone/sornament.htm
Want to make your own bead patterns? http://easybeadpatterns.com/index.php
A great polymer clay site with ornaments http://www.polymerclaycentral.com/pcc/ornament.html
Make a clay angel clause http://www.sculpey.com/Projects/projects_AngelClaus.htm
Net around an ornament http://www.rubysbeadwork.com/RedOrnament.html
Lots of free patterns http://beadwork.about.com/
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/9555/ Free beading information
Suzanne Cooper has the most extensive and easy to understand instructions for the different types of Peyote stitch. After printing out the instructions, be sure to visit her patterns page and pick up some wonderful designs to try you newly acquired skills on http://www.suzannecooper.com/classroom/classmain.html
Ok, so it's not beadwork, but it's just as beautiful. It's quillwork and if there was ever inspiration for that want, this is it!
http://www.povn.com/rock/gQuill.html
The beading banshee Mary http://www.beadingbanshee.com/free/dutch-variation.html
Online needleweaving classes http://www.enchantedfantasies.com/Needleweaver.html
Lots of patterns, templates and graph paper. http://home.flash.net/~mjtafoya/patterns.htm
Artist Highlight Rose RushBrooke
Fractal Quilt artist
Caribbean Pepperpot
Rose was born in London, England. Got the traveling bug in her thirties and
eventually settled in the Caribbean island of Antigua. For ten years she made her
living as a professional artist. She met an American got married and moved
to Virginia, USA where they now live.
On arrival she knew no-one so joined a quilter's guild where her first quilted pot holder was born! Loved fabric and stopped painting and started making quilts. She stopped making traditional quilts and started making art quilts, and now concentrates on exploring the infinite abstractions that can be created from fractal designs. She uses both
hand dyed and quilter's printed cotton along with beads, novelty threads, natural and manmade fibers and anything else she can lay my hands on to make her fractal art quilts. She exhibits in galleries, museums and quilt shows in both the USA and the UK and is represented by two galleries
She needed a chatelaine for my thimble so she started designing little knitted beaded amulet bags. People now buy them not just for thimbles but as jewelry. She needed particular colors for her artwork so she started dyeing her own fabrics. That led to dyeing silk scarves as a side line. Found certain quilting notions that she particularly loved so started she selling them from her website.
She says "If you are a wannabe quilter then join a guild. Every member knows something
about quilting techniques that they are dying to impart. Then find out which are the best books on the basics of quilting and read them. Go buy some quilters cotton and start cutting it up into little pieces and joining it back together. Amazing how addictive it can be! Then become very inventive with stories you tell your husband about why you spend so much money on your fabric stash."
Her favorite creation is always the one she is working on. Right now that
happens to be a piece called Lydia -
http://www.roserushbrooke.com/wlydia.html which will be part of a traveling exhibition and book called Women of Biblical Proportion.
For those who want to know more about fractals here are some interesting
links:
The Infinite Fractal Loop - http://www.fractalus.com/ifl/ a gateway to further fractal resources.
Fractal Forge - http://sourceforge.net/projects/fractalforge/ one of the free fractal software programs that I use.
Fractivity by Janet Parke - http://www.parkenet.org/jp/fractvty.htm one of the many extraordinary digital galleries on the Internet that explores fractals.
Rose Rushbrooke
Aldie, Virginia
Fractal Art Quilts
http://www.roserushbrooke.com
Barbara is a gifted speaker who lectures and gives demonstrations at artist’s guilds, bead societies and, occasionally, public schools. Her heart is to see beadwork recognized and elevated to the status of the fine art that it is. Her work has been exhibited in several shows in the Northwest. Some of her earlier work was on display at Lalooska Gallery in Ariel, Washington. Some of her more contemporary work was recently on display at Bead Artistry: A Continuing Evolution show in Newport, Oregon.
She was born in Exeter, California, and has 2 sisters and one brother. They moved a lot and she was shy as a kid and pretty much a loaner. She has lived in Oregon since she was 12 years old, but has never become, Oregonianized." I don't like the rainy and dark skies. Thank God for the Ott-lite! It has helped me so much on those gloomy days". She have three grown children, a daughter and two sons, and 5 grand kids, and yes, they all play with beads. :) She has been married for 35 years to her high school sweet heart, Danny.
She has been beading all her life, seriously since 1966. She played with 'pop beads' in the 1950's. In '60's I had 'love beads' and in the late 60's, early '70's. A few years later she met a Sioux-Blackfoot woman who taught her how to start a tubular peyote project. She taught me the first three rows of odd-count peyote and left the rest up to me. From then on I explored peyote on my own for years.
She joined the Prodigy Network and found a beading board. She sent out the directions to her online friends. Inspired by Aurora's Brick stitch book, and the encouragement of all my cyber beading friends on Prodigy, she wrote her first book, Peyote At Last! A Peyote Beadwork Primer. She decided to self-publish, her first printing was 50 books just for my cyber friends. They started taking them to bead stores and started getting orders. And the rest, as they say, is history.
She has worked with battered/abused women for years on a volunteer basis and used to have a ministry where we worked with incarcerated women and adult victims of childhood sexual abuse. She is currently taking steps to volunteer at a women's shelter so she can teach them to make simple beaded projects. Battered women have self-esteem issues. Something as simple as making their own earrings can help them feel value and confidence. Every woman should feel loved, protected and cherished but years of brainwashing has left them feeling hopeless, useless and helpless. I try to bring a little light into their lives.
Barb Grainger
If you would like to email her the address is beadteach@aol.com
Barbara Grainger, an internationally recognized beadwork author, artist and instructor specializes in innovative beadwork techniques. Known for her clear instructions and expert teaching ability, she brings over 30 years experience, experimentation and expertise to her relaxed classroom atmosphere. She is the author of three beadwork books, Peyote At Last!, Peyote Design Techniques and her newest book, Dimensional Flowers, Leaves & Vines, which have sold through out the U.S. and Internationally.
Peyote at Last! What a perfect name for this book, because when I finished it I could do "Peyote at last". This is a great book for anyone who has ever wanted to learn and understand the basics of this versatile stitch. Using large diagrams and explicit instructions she explains even and odd count peyote (flat and tubular), as well as how to increase and decrease within a piece. She even offers some design tips.
Peyote Design Techniques In this book she takes peyote one step further and explains how to create your own designs. There are sections that cover reading graph paper for flat and tubular, as well as patterns, and graph paper to design your own. She explains in detail how to design in peyote, in great detail.
Dimensional Flowers, Leaves & Vines This is a great book for those who are familiar with beading and need to be creatively inspired, as well as someone who is just starting out. There are beautiful 3d flowers, as well as netting techniques discussed here. The above willow pattern is from this book. In this book you will learn the art of beading. With beautiful color pictures and clear directions you will be designing your own masterpieces.
For information on buying these books contact Barb Grainger at beadteach@aol.com. Her mailing address is Barbara Grainger, P.O. Box 1902, Oregon City, OR 97045