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General beginner beading embroidery

I am starting to embroider clothing mostly to enhance the garment rather than to embellish it as a project. I wonder if that is a clear statement?

I have spent many years doijg all sorts of sewing and embroidery. I've had a go at patchwork but this didn't suit me really and I can crochet and knit, but I want to try something really new and interesting.

So, beading embroidery on clothes really appealed. All I seek really is a good source to get me started. I have drawn up some (rather primitive) designs and can practise these. I would really like to expand on embroidery design - using seed beads, bugle beads and sequins - these are all the rage this year!

Thanks for pointing me in a direction that will do this.

Cheers

Daisy

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Daisy
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Take a look at

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of the little sampler icons have a tutorial sheet attached. Shealso gives resources at the end of each tutorial. Dora

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bungadora

I will have to try other websites or sources I think.

Daisy

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Daisy

The only other resource I have for beaded embroidery is a chapter in Julia Jones' The Beading Book.

Bead and Button magazine has had a couple of articles in the past about beaded embroidery. There was a spectacular example in one of the issues a year or two ago of a jacket with a beaded lizard all the way up one side and along the back. Looking at it (october 2002) (Ah!) B&B pushed a video called Bead Embroidery Techniques, at

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And, of course, if you feel inclined to do some computer searches yourself, about.beads has tutuorials in a lot of different areas of beadwork. You might be able to find something there.

Good luck Dora

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bungadora

bungadora wrote: Looking at it (october 2002) (Ah!) B&B pushed

Ooops, Sorry again. I checked it out after I posted and they no longer offer the video on the main page. They might have it in the paper catalogue though. Carol Perronoud at Beadcats was the person who originally wrote the 'how to' in the B&B article, and it might be worthwhile pursuing this as a source. Dora

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bungadora

Thanks for all the assistance. I had a go at the about site with the tutorials and found some interesting stuff. As I am in New Zealand any videos made in the USA are not able to be used here. If there are any videos made for the UK market, they will work here. In fact all European and most Asian (not Japanese) videos work on our PAL system - but not American unfortunately.

I don't understand the sizing in the degrees that the beadcats website quotes. Would you happen to know what size seed bead is used for decoration with a 6mm sequin? I think this is the smallest size sequin. I can't work in inches any more at this smaller size! I sometimes use one or two seed beads with the sequin.

I have decorated a top today that had a suitable pattern in the material. It isn't great, but it's a start. Daisy

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Daisy

Oh, too bad.

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Never having worked with sequins I can't tell you. I would expect it would depend on the effect you wish to make. However, the following site has a conversion chart to mm (at the very bottom) and an explanation of the sizing, which is standard in seed beads. Basically

6o is the largest, and 24o is the smallest.
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bungadora

bungadora said

Thanks -- that's a great site!!

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anne

Glad you liked it. There is a lot of information on that site, if you wander around it. Dora

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bungadora

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