UMBS Spring Workshop

Learn to Make a Bead Crochet Rope
May 10, 2008
Textile Center, 9 to 12:00 noon
Tuition: $20.00

Prerequisite for this class: Experience crocheting.
You don’t need to know a lot of fancy stitches or how to read a pattern but you do need to be able to hold your crochet hook and thread so you maintain an even tension. You will also need to be able to do a slip stitch.

Description:
If you have tried to learn bead crochet and found yourself frustrated, this class may hold the key to success for you! The challenge of bead crochet is beginning a project. Most of us find ourselves thoroughly confused after about 2.5 rounds. We look at our efforts and see a bunch of grapes, toss it across the room and decide to cross this one off the list of cool things to learn!

There is a way around the first inch of bead crochet – a bead crochet starter. These are little segments of bead crochet that serve as a starter piece for your projects.

In this three hour class, you will create a sample piece where you learn:

How to string beads for a project
How to begin your project using the bead crochet starter
How to end a project and cut it from the bead crochet starter

You are encouraged to bring some beads so you can begin a project to complete outside of class.

Materials:
Bead crochet starter kit available from the instructor for $18
The kit includes:
   A bead crochet starter
   Written and illustrated instructions
   A packet of #8 seed beads for your sample piece

Tools kit available from the instructor for $5
The tool kit includes:
   A #7 steel crochet hook, Susan Bates brand
   A 5” long big eye needle
   A spool of Coates and Clark button and craft thread
   A pin to pickup dropped stitches

You will need to bring:
   2 to 4 tubes of different colors of #8 seed beads for your project
   A sharp tipped pair of scissors
   Optional: A task light and glasses so you can see

Instructor: Rose Allen
Rose has been addicted to bead crochet for about 3 years, ever since she had a breakthrough one cold and windy night after trying to learn this technique for many years. Her true epiphany came when she realized she could start a new project using a leftover chunk of bead crochet from a previous project, thus the bead crochet starter was born! Her goal is to spread the bead crochet addiction to others because it’s such a fun, tactile, colorful and portable way to bead. Rose is a member of the Upper Midwest Bead Society.

rose@capitolviewconsulting.com
www.capitolviewconsulting.com/creations.html

Registration:
You can mail your tuition check (made payable to UMBS) to Kathy Tapper, or hand it to a Board Member at Bead Bazaar or Bead Retreat. Call Kathy with any questions (612) 866-6426.

Bead Crochet Starter