Connecting Jewelry Components Online Workshop with Sherry Serafini

Description

Join bead embroidery artist Sherry Serafini as she shares a variety of methods she uses to connect beaded components in her jewelry designs. Let your creativity run wild as you create bead embroidered components with no final jewelry design in mind. Learn how to finish your beaded components with an ultra-suede backing and create a brick stitch edge. Puzzle your bead embroidery pieces together on a foundation cloth then pull everything together with some final bead embroidery. Unleash your imagination with Sherry?s helpful hints and expert tips!

Register for Bead Embroidery: Connecting Jewelry Components with Sherry Serafini today to:

• Discover an easy and elegant way to finish your beaded components as you prepare to combine them with other pieces of bead embroidery.
• Explore the differences between herringbone and direct connections for your components.
• Watch and learn as Sherry demonstrates her process for puzzling her bead embroidery pieces into one cohesive design.

Lesson Breakdown:

• Introduction
• Simple Edges
• Herringbone & Direct Connections
• Glueing Components
• Using a Jeweler’s Bust

Workshop Includes:
Discussion Board & Gallery: The discussion board is a great way to interact with other users in the course. It?s an open forum for you to ask questions, share your thoughts, express your inspirations, and share images of your work.

Optional Quizzes: Short optional quizzes to test your knowledge as you progress through the lessons.

Resources: This course comes with convenient printable and downloadable PDF files, located in the Resources tab in the left-hand menu.

Run time: ~ 41 min.

About the Instructor:
Unusual objects and shapes become part of a new story as Sherry Serafini stitches beads and gemstones, one at a time, to a felt-like base. Most pieces are born spontaneously, as the beads and Sherry?s imagination dictate the design. Sherry finds this meditative form of art to be a rich counterpoint to a society full of instant gratification.

Voted one of the top 10 instructors in the United States, Sherry lectures and teaches worldwide. Her work has been featured on the covers of trade magazines and catalogs and she authored Sensational Bead Embroidery and co-authored The Art of Bead Embroidery with Heidi Kummli. Sherry?s beaded art is known internationally and has been worn by Grammy winner Melissa Etheridge, Steven Tyler of Aerosmith, Lenny Kravitz, pro golfer Michelle Wie, and singer Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas.