Beading

  

OK, I know all about beading and how to do it ...... not.

I went to the library a couple of days ago and picked up several books about beading as I thought it could be something I could really enjoy doing.

On impulse, I popped into a local shop and bought 3 tubes of beads to get me started (2 seed / 1 bugle ) together with some nylon thread.

I searched and searched through the books and finally, on the internet, arrived at the EagleSpirit website.

Wonderful - this is what I had been looking for - patterns and ideas that I could ask for - the galleries of finished works was really inspirational.

So ... sort of following the instructions (using 5 beads across instead of 4) I managed to create part of a necklace. The picture above shows my first ever piece of beading .... lovely.

Since then I have produced many items of jewellery including bracelets and earrings - I love beading. There are so many colours of beads that even using the same pattern, a necklace looks totally different to one produced previously. 

One problem I have living in this part of the country, is in obtaining different types of beads - to be honest one local store (Chadds) has some seed beads available, but nowhere can I purchase threads or quantities of other bead types.  Just as well this internet thing is up and running - eh?