Description
Want to enhance your basic seed bead weaving repertoire? Expert Carol Cypher will teach you everything you need to know about the Polygon Stitch in her Online Workshop Getting Started Bead Weaving Series: Exploring New Textured Tubular Beadwork – Polygon Stitch 101. The Polygon Stitch is a tubular weave that become faceted or multi-flat-sided. By varying the bead size and number of beads, this stitch will quickly become versatile! Carol will teach you from start to finish the basic stitch, anatomy and how to use an armature in your stitching.
As the Online Workshop progresses, you’ll discover nine ways to vary the Polygon Stitch so that you can develop your own creative designs. As an added bonus, you’ll receive a free pattern, shopping list, and an excerpt from her book Mastering Beadwork: A Comprehensive Guide to Off-Loom Techniques!
This Online Workshop is available to you anywhere, anytime, allowing you to stop and practice when you need to! By registering for this engaging online learning Online Workshop, you will have the opportunity to connect with other students and be a part of a community to bounce ideas off each other and to share your designs. Before you know it, you’ll become a master of the Polygon Stitch!
Lesson Breakdown
Lesson 1: The Basics
- Fundamentals of Polygon Stitch
Lesson 2: 9 Polygon Stitch Variations
- 3-Faced Supple Rope
- 3-Faced Supple Rope with Edge
- 3-Faced Supple Rope with Denser Edge
- 3-Faced Supple Rope with Multi-Sized Beads
- 3-Faced Swirling Rope 3-Faced Dense-Edge Rope
- 5-Faced Rope with 2 Beads
- 4-Faced Solid Rope
- 3-Faced Checkerboard
Online Workshop Includes
Discussion board & Gallery: The discussion board is a great way to interact with other users in the Online Workshop. It’s an open forum for you to ask questions, share your thoughts, express your inspirations, and share images of your work.
Notes: This is a place for you to keep personal notes to help you with your work and the Online Workshop content. Only you will be able to see your notes.
Optional Quizzes: Short optional quizzes to test your knowledge as you progress through the lessons.
Video Lesson Run Time ≈ 93 minutes
About the Instructor
Carol Cypher teaches workshops in beadwork and feltmaking and the provocative pairing of the two, in the U.S.A., Japan, Australia and Europe.
She is author of Mastering Beadwork: A Comprehensive Guide to Off-Loom Techniques, in addition to two felting books, published in the USA by Interweave Press: Hand Felted Jewelry and Beads: 25 Artful Designs, and How We Felt: Designs and Techniques from Contemporary Felt Artists. She also wrote a Japanese book on feltmaking, published by Patchwork Tsushin LTD and sponsored by Tulip Co. (Carol’s English manuscript was translated by Motoko Natsubori.)
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