Cubic Right-Angle Weave: Shapes Online Workshop with Marcia DeCoster

Description

Once you know the fundamentals of cubic right-angle weave, you’re ready to bring to life all the shapes you can imagine, whether curved, angled, or a combination. In this workshop version of Marcia DeCoster’s video, you’ll learn to manipulate your beadwork to form corners, circles, teardrops, ellipses, and more!

Lesson Breakdown:

Introduction:

• Meet Marcia DeCoster
• Marcia’s Top 5 Tips
• Tools, Materials, and Thread Management

RAW Techniques:

• Corners
• Shapes & Curves
• Ellipses, Teardrops, & Circles
• Pendants, Bezels, & Clasps

Techniques Covered:

• Cubic Right-Angle Weave
• Creating angles to make squares, pentagons, and triangles
• Joining
• Creating curves
• Creating shapes: ellipses, teardrops, and circles
• Pendants
• Bezels

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. You’ll find:

• A list of materials
• Marcia’s Top 5 Tips
• Circle Earrings Project

Run time: ~ 49 min.

About the Instructor:

Marcia DeCoster’s love for beautiful jewelry and the desire to create her own designs brought her to beads in the early 1990s. Remembering her own early attempts, Marcia recognizes that everyone learns differently and keeps this in mind while teaching and when creating her clear, concise, and comprehensive instructions and graphics. She was a Beadwork Designer of the Year in 2009 and is the author of several books, including Marcia DeCoster’s Beaded Opulence (2009) and Marcia DeCoster’s Beads in Motion (2013).