Soutache Made Simple: Learn How to Do Soutache

Description

Join soutache artist Amee Sweet-McNamara for her web seminar that will teach you about soutache jewelry. This beautiful trend combines beautiful braiding with beadwork in unique and colorful ways. This all-inclusive web seminar will teach you everything you need to know about soutache, and how to incorporate it into your beaded jewelry designs.

What you’ll learn:

• What soutache is, how to create it, and how to incorporate it into your beadwork.
• How to stitch a lollipop, end stacks, and make a ladder effectively.
• Helpful tips for working with soutache including ways to align and stack elements. Stitching into the curve effectively, where to hold your piece, and more.
• Important finishing techniques including adding backing, edge beading, and proper jump ring use.
• And more!

This on-demand web seminar is perfect for:

• Anyone interested in learning about soutache.
• Beaders who want to incorporate soutache into their beaded jewelry.
• Beaders who want to add fiber to their beaded jewelry.
• Artists who want to add color and texture to their jewelry.
• Beaders who want to explore new embroidery techniques for their beaded jewelry.
• Bead embroidery artists who want to master new beading techniques.
• Anyone who wants to learn beaded embellishment techniques.
• Jewelry artists who want to use soutache cord in their beaded jewelry.

About the Artist:

Ask Amee K. Sweet-McNamara why her fine-art jewelry business is called “Amee Runs with Scissors,” and she usually just laughs and says, “Because it sounds a whole lot sexier than ‘Amee Eats Paste.'” Working out of her southern New Hampshire home, Sweet-McNamara makes one-of-a-kind pieces of wearable-art textile-jewelry using a technique called “Soutache & Bead Embroidery” which involves hand-stitching yards and yards of soutache braid and hundreds of tiny beads. She is inspired by curvilinear shapes and unexpected color-combinations wherever she discovers them; fine art, movies, architecture, advertising. Sweet-McNamara writes books, contributes to craft magazines, sells her work through galleries and craft-shows, teaches both private and group classes at venues across the country and is a proud member of the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen.