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Getting back in touch with my roots and rekindling a love of creating

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coralzero88 message #1
Getting back in touch with my roots and rekindling a love of creating
January 16, 2023 at 11:02:42 AM

Hello new community friends! I just wanted to post here to say wow, I am lucky to have stumbled on such a great website! I just love this place. As the title says, I am just here to say my hellos to you all. My craft that I have recently been exploring is beading, currently looking into a project using peyote stitch. I learned a long long time ago from my grandmother and as life happens, I am now having to remember those lessons and am learining along the way. If anyone has some suggestions for a not necessarily new newbie, I would appreciate suggestions and tips and tricks.

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Re: Getting back in touch with my roots and rekindling a love of creating
January 17, 2023 at 12:59:38 AM (in response to coralzero88 message #1)

Coralzero,

Welcome!

I'm so excited for you starting again with your beadweaving! Bonus that your grandmother taught you...what a lovely thing she did.

While you're definitely not a beginner, I strongly suggest the book I learned from: Creative Bead Weaving by Carol Wilcox Wells, because I found the illustrations were so clear and detailed. At that time I'd tried other books and felt they didn't have the nuances Creative Bead Weaving had. There may be other books since then, so I'm not saying this one is definitely the answer, but it's a very good, handy reference - and I still use it for information about various stitches, not just peyote.

Wells published a newer book beyond Creative Bead Weaving, The Art & Elegance of Beadweaving, which includes even more stitches, still with all of the clear references that were included in Creative Bead Weaving. LOL, okay, I'm more than a bit of a fan.

Also, there are some wonderful choices of bead thread. I much prefer fishing line, such as Fireline Crystal. While the colors are limited, with most bead colors the Fireline Crystal tends to blend right in, and it doesn't tend to break or get ragged like Nymo does. (Bonus, you can get it from any sporting good store and even Walmart sells it!) As for thread conditioner, that's kind of dicey; if you're okay with beeswax, that should suffice. There's a synthetic now on the market, Thread Magic, but it's really expensive. So the conditioner is a difficult proposition these days.

I wish you best of luck with your project and do feel free to post photos of your progress so we can drool!

Melanie (cat slave and Official Feline Can Opener) =^.^=
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