kerravonsen: Stone egg on moss: "Art is Life, Life is Art" (art)

Beading - stringing beads together in various ways - is a fun craft. Like many crafts, you can end up spending lots of money on it, but you don't have to. Unfortunately, I've seen the case where newbie beaders ask more experienced beaders what equipment they need, and the response included, in their list of "essential" equipment, tools that I have never used myself. Hardly "essential". So I've written this article to assure people that they can take up beading with hardly any equipment at all; that they can start small, to see if they like it, without having to spend tons of money first.

beeeeeeeeeds! )

I hope y'all weren't bored by this fairly comprehensive overview.

kerravonsen: Stone egg on moss: "Art is Life, Life is Art" (art)
I have now done my first actual bead crochet!
I finished this last week, but didn't scan it until today:
necklace

I wouldn't have made a necklace from that particular string, but I was using (another ball of) it on a bag, and I noticed how silky smooth it was, as well as a lovely colour, so I thought I'd give it a go, using pony-beads and Thai silver beads, since smaller beads wouldn't fit. It seems to have worked.

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