Seed Bead Botany Online Workshop with Nancy Eha

Description

As small glass pixels of color and light, beads add a layer of beauty to all fabric-based projects like no other medium can! The Beading Queen and instructor Nancy Eha has spent over 20 years exploring and teaching beading to students worldwide. This course is based on Nancy’s personal beading techniques which she calls “crazy beading” – beading inspired by the opulent embroidery on traditional crazy quilts.

Filled with short videos, images, patterns, detailed instructions and easy-to-follow steps, you’ll learn how to create small beaded flowers, leaves, vines, grapes, and berries. Plus, gain the confidence to explore and create additional plant life with your new beading skills. Share images of your work and ask questions of your fellow students in the class discussion boards.

Get ready to explore both traditional and new fabric beading stitches as you create a bounty of beaded botanical beauties in this online workshop!

Lesson Breakdown
Lesson 1: Beading Skills for Professional Looking Results

• Top tips for beading needles, thread, and beads
• Controlling beads to lay flat on fabric
• How to make the beaded back stitch
• Making paper beading patterns
• Several beaded vine options

Lesson 2: Beaded Vines and Stamen

• How to make the beaded feather stitch
• Construct beaded vines with the feather stitch
• Consider uses for freeform feather stitch
• How to make the beaded stop stitch
• Discover options for creating beaded stamen

Lesson 3: Beaded Petals and Leaves

• How to make a lazy daisy stitch with beads
• Explore rounded and pointed tip beaded petals
• Learn eight styles of beaded petals
• Consider using petal shapes for leaves
• Add petals to the stamen from Lesson 2

Lesson 4: Beaded Grapes, Wisteria, and Berries

• How to make the beaded raised satin stitch
• Learn to make grape clusters
• Make lifelike wisteria
• Realistic raspberry and blackberry

Course 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.

Notes: This is a place for you to keep personal notes to help you with your work and the course 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 ≈ 30 minutes

*This course is mainly text and image-based, with short, instructional videos to demonstrate techniques.

About the Instructor
Nancy Eha, also known as The Beading Queen to her students, has taught thousands worldwide. She enjoys sharing her knowledge, passion and pleasure for beading on fabric with others. Her articles and beading have been featured in scores of magazines and books, including several Quilting Arts issues. Nancy has written two fabric beading books which include beading basics as well as her innovative beading techniques such as crazy beading and elevated beading. She uses beads as primary focal points on fabric – not to add “mere sparkle.” Some describe her work as “obsessively beaded,” and she agrees. Nancy continues to develop innovative beading techniques as she explores “bead physics” and create magical works of art.