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Saturday Let's Bead Live! events stream live through the Public Upper Midwest Bead Society Facebook Page.
Monthly Member Meetings stream live through Zoom at 6pm CST.
These meetings/links are subsequently uploaded to the Upper Midwest Bead Society Members Only Facebook Page.
Zoom links for both events are emailed to our current members.
FYI Our meetings/events will continue to be on Zoom even after we get back together in-person
Saturday Let's Bead Live! events stream live through the Public Upper Midwest Bead Society Facebook Page.
Monthly Member Meetings stream live through Zoom at 6pm CST.
These meetings/links are subsequently uploaded to the Upper Midwest Bead Society Members Only Facebook Page.
Zoom links for both events are emailed to our current members.
FYI Our meetings/events will continue to be on Zoom even after we get back together in-person
UMBS January Let's Bead Live!
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Our very own Christine Girior will be teaching us how to bead a fairy! This little figure is so cute and fun to make! Don't miss out on this opportunity to learn this technique!
Join us for the Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88684846530?pwd=SWY4aktzWkEzU0lYTHA1emw3V0tlUT09
Meeting ID: 886 8484 6530
Passcode: 977892
Join us for the Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88684846530?pwd=SWY4aktzWkEzU0lYTHA1emw3V0tlUT09
Meeting ID: 886 8484 6530
Passcode: 977892
Beads are universal. They are found in almost every society and culture throughout the world for thousands of years. My obsession started in 2001. Looking for a new hobby I could do at home with a newborn, I stumbled upon a simple bead stringing kit to make stretchy bracelets. With that, the doors opened to a world I knew little about. With every book I purchased and every YouTube tutorial I watched, I learned a new technique, a new kind of bead, a new way of looking at color and texture. And soon I was fascinated by these little seed beads - the possibilities are endless!
My obsession began to grow and I started making not only bracelets, but necklaces, pictures, boxes, and bead embroidery pieces. Then it expanded even further into 3D geometric items and loomed tapestries. Within a few years, my bead budget was blown almost every month...!
Beading has been my way of coping with this crazy world. During the day I work for a medical device company as a documentation specialist. Before that I was a civil litigation paralegal for many years in a variety of legal fields. My educational background is, oddly enough, a bachelor’s degree in music performance from the U of M. I moved back home to Minneapolis in 2010 after being in So. Florida and North Carolina for 20 years. I am originally from Wayzata, MN and now reside in New Hope, MN with my little dog and two cats.
My obsession began to grow and I started making not only bracelets, but necklaces, pictures, boxes, and bead embroidery pieces. Then it expanded even further into 3D geometric items and loomed tapestries. Within a few years, my bead budget was blown almost every month...!
Beading has been my way of coping with this crazy world. During the day I work for a medical device company as a documentation specialist. Before that I was a civil litigation paralegal for many years in a variety of legal fields. My educational background is, oddly enough, a bachelor’s degree in music performance from the U of M. I moved back home to Minneapolis in 2010 after being in So. Florida and North Carolina for 20 years. I am originally from Wayzata, MN and now reside in New Hope, MN with my little dog and two cats.
Thanks to The Beadworkers Guild (BWG) and their International Beading Week (IBW) we are able to bring you Nancy Jenner's "Faerie" design.
Here's the link to The Beadworkers Guild Website: www.beadworkersguild.com
Here's the link to Nancy's "Faerie" pattern: https://beadworkersguild.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Nancy-Jenner-Faerie-Pattern.pdf
Check out The Beadworkers Guild website for their monthly Zoom Drop-In dates! All are welcome to join in for free.
Here's the link to The Beadworkers Guild Website: www.beadworkersguild.com
Here's the link to Nancy's "Faerie" pattern: https://beadworkersguild.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Nancy-Jenner-Faerie-Pattern.pdf
Check out The Beadworkers Guild website for their monthly Zoom Drop-In dates! All are welcome to join in for free.
Christine will be teaching the fairy pattern by Nancy Jenner. It's a practice in Increasing and decreasing Peyote stitch, should be familiar with Peyote stitch for this intermediate class. It will be Free to members. Our Zoom now accommodates up to 200 students at a time. Supplies needed 4-6 colors of 11/o Seed Beads basically,
A note about beads: I recommend using Miyuki beads for the body, hat, and wings and Toho for the face. Being slightly larger than Miyuki, the Toho beads plump out the face better than Miyuki. I used Swarovski 3mm pearls for the eyes and one 3mm Firepolish for the hands, but feel free to substitute with beads you have on hand. For the embellishments, use what is in your bead stash. Thread: My thread preference is 6 lb. Smoke Fireline, which is what I used for the body and head. The wings were beaded with transparent beads, so I used 6 lb. Crystal Fireline for those.
Supplies: Body & Arms: 11/0 Miyuki seed beads, approximately 4 grams
Hat: 11/0 Miyuki seed beads, approximately 4 grams
15/0 Miyuki seed beads, 25 beads for underside, plus any used for embellishments
11/0 Miyuki seed beads, 6 for flower,
1 for flower center Face:
11/0 Toho seed beads, 60 beads Mouth:
11/0 Miyuki or Toho seed bead, matte pink, 1 bead
Wings: 11/0 Miyuki seed beads, approximately 1 gram
Eyes: 3mm Swarovski pearls, 2 pearls
Hands: 3mm Firepolish. 1 bead (or substitute with 2 bicone beads)
Internal weight for base: US dime or coin similar in size (approximately 11/16” or 1.75 cm) Stuffing: Glad “Press’n Seal” (found in the grocery store) or similar self-sticking food wrap
Misc.: Size 11 beading needle, beading mat, scissors or thread zapper, and optional thread conditioner
A note about beads: I recommend using Miyuki beads for the body, hat, and wings and Toho for the face. Being slightly larger than Miyuki, the Toho beads plump out the face better than Miyuki. I used Swarovski 3mm pearls for the eyes and one 3mm Firepolish for the hands, but feel free to substitute with beads you have on hand. For the embellishments, use what is in your bead stash. Thread: My thread preference is 6 lb. Smoke Fireline, which is what I used for the body and head. The wings were beaded with transparent beads, so I used 6 lb. Crystal Fireline for those.
Supplies: Body & Arms: 11/0 Miyuki seed beads, approximately 4 grams
Hat: 11/0 Miyuki seed beads, approximately 4 grams
15/0 Miyuki seed beads, 25 beads for underside, plus any used for embellishments
11/0 Miyuki seed beads, 6 for flower,
1 for flower center Face:
11/0 Toho seed beads, 60 beads Mouth:
11/0 Miyuki or Toho seed bead, matte pink, 1 bead
Wings: 11/0 Miyuki seed beads, approximately 1 gram
Eyes: 3mm Swarovski pearls, 2 pearls
Hands: 3mm Firepolish. 1 bead (or substitute with 2 bicone beads)
Internal weight for base: US dime or coin similar in size (approximately 11/16” or 1.75 cm) Stuffing: Glad “Press’n Seal” (found in the grocery store) or similar self-sticking food wrap
Misc.: Size 11 beading needle, beading mat, scissors or thread zapper, and optional thread conditioner
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UMBS February Member Meeting
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Karen has over 30 years of artistic experience, covering beadweaving, bead embroidery and working with resin, glass, and metal. She is both an accomplished artist and teacher. Since 2012, she has devoted her talent to women in a remote jungle village in southern India, teaching them how to bead weave. The women have their own business, Azhagi Jewelry, and are supported in part by a Stateside 501c3 at various speaking events. She has taught at the Bead & Button Show for years, as well as being a guest instructor at local bead shops.
Karen learned fused glass techniques from Abhilasha Natarajan at the Tracy Arts Center. Through experimenting with glass, Karen invented the curved dichroic bracelet band for bead embroidery, Velvet Glass cabochons, and River Glass cabochons. Sherry Serafini chose one of Karen's curved dichroic bands to work with and her result was lovely.
Karen was introduced to the concept of resin with an inner glow in 2018, when she attended a class at Bead & Button taught by Gail Crosman Moore. Gail's class opened Karen's mind to exploration and experimentation. Since taking Gail's class, Karen has rediscovered techniques she used in other crafts 27 years ago that just happen to work well with resin to create the illusion that the piece is radiating light that changes color or flashes with movement. She also uses Gail's techniques with permission in some of her products (the mermaids).
Karen has continued her exploration of glass and resin and has added hand painting to both mediums. But her first love will always be bead embroidery.
You can find Karen online at https://karenbruns.com/
Karen learned fused glass techniques from Abhilasha Natarajan at the Tracy Arts Center. Through experimenting with glass, Karen invented the curved dichroic bracelet band for bead embroidery, Velvet Glass cabochons, and River Glass cabochons. Sherry Serafini chose one of Karen's curved dichroic bands to work with and her result was lovely.
Karen was introduced to the concept of resin with an inner glow in 2018, when she attended a class at Bead & Button taught by Gail Crosman Moore. Gail's class opened Karen's mind to exploration and experimentation. Since taking Gail's class, Karen has rediscovered techniques she used in other crafts 27 years ago that just happen to work well with resin to create the illusion that the piece is radiating light that changes color or flashes with movement. She also uses Gail's techniques with permission in some of her products (the mermaids).
Karen has continued her exploration of glass and resin and has added hand painting to both mediums. But her first love will always be bead embroidery.
You can find Karen online at https://karenbruns.com/
UMBS February Let's Bead Live!
Saturday February 19, 2022
1:00-4:00pm CST
As always, these classes are free
to all members and non-members!
Lisa Krupp-Dooley is a self-taught bead weaving artist. Her beading career started in 2016, when she started creating and developing her own patterns and entered her first necklace design into the Potomac Design Challenge. Since then her design "Ava's Planet Beaded Bead" has been published in Maggie Thompson's Interweave eBook in 2017. In 2020 Beadwork magazine published her "Pearly Peaks Bracelet" design which can be found here: https://www.interweave.com/product/pearly-peaks-bracelet-pattern-download/
In 2020, Lisa’s “Pretty Paisley Necklace” made the cover of Beadwork’s first E-magazine issue of Quick + Easy which can be found here: https://www.interweave.com/quick-easy-beadwork-2021/ She also had Beadsmith (a wholesale bead company) use her design, Sawtooth Bracelet, as an exclusive project for bead stores. To see more of her designs, please visit her Etsy shop www.lisasbeaddesigns.etsy.com
Lisa will be teaching us her "Arabesque Beaded Bead".
This darling little bead can be used
as a bracelet or necklace focal and of course as a pair of earrings.
The downloadable PDF pattern link is below
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Member Meeting Date TBA
Elfleda Russell, the award-winning artist and teacher from Canada, will share an inspirational hour and a half outlining the processes and techniques she has developed for her beaded sculpture, wall pieces and jewelry. She describes how her unique approach to beading is influenced by decades of prior experience producing large sculptural tapestries and paintings. 
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Elfleda will discuss beading as an expressive art form: orchestrating elements, choosing content, making beading itself expressive
She'll also cover how to build structures with beads: Chains to architecture, types of chains, ruffles, folding, free form Herringbone and Brick stitch, including beading onto supportive materials: an array of materials for casting and constructing.
Watch your email for the Zoom link
She'll also cover how to build structures with beads: Chains to architecture, types of chains, ruffles, folding, free form Herringbone and Brick stitch, including beading onto supportive materials: an array of materials for casting and constructing.
Watch your email for the Zoom link
Congratulations to our own Lisa Krupp-Dooley -- her "Pretty Paisleys Necklace and Earrings" are on the cover of Interweave's "Quick + Easy Beadwork 2021"!! Other featured artists are Debora Hodoyer, Nicole Vogt, Maryann McAlpin, Tracy Proctor, Leslie Pope, Edgar Lopez, Sue Neel, Nealay Patel and Danielle Wickes.
Get a free copy of this eMag until January 3, 2022 through the link below.
Visit her Etsy shop to buy this kit!
Get a free copy of this eMag until January 3, 2022 through the link below.
Visit her Etsy shop to buy this kit!