The Disorganized Crafter
Fraser Valley Beaders Meetings
Due to popular request, a schedule was created to help with flow
and as an aid to the chronically late:
- 1:00 - 1:30 pm
- Social & arrival time
- 1:30 pm - 2:30
- Meeting to order, roundtable show & tell
- 2:30 pm - as required
- Learning event
- 3:00 - 4:00 pm
- Scheduling of next meeting and market time
- Laser etched pendants
- Laser cut bracelets
- Laser cut pendants
- Russian Spiral
- Rheoscopic bracelets and pendants
- French knotted beaded beads
- Beaded Dorset buttons/pendants
- Quartz info session
- Rolled paper beads
- Beading with LEDs
- Beaded dolls
- Bead embroidery
- Shamballa bracelets
- Persian weave chain
- Peyote bezeled rivolis
- Chain maille flowers
- 3D printed jewelry demo
- Jump ring balls
- Polymer clay play day
- Beaded tatting
- Beaded kumihimo
- Beaded crown knots (sinnet and good luck)
- BC gem information session
- temari ball primer
- Richmond
Gem & Mineral Society book collection display and sale.
- organic gem information session
- 3d right angle weave
- properties of semi-precious gems and stones
- Buyer's guide to art glass/lampwork beads and making a
pendant with an art glass bead
- globe
knot beads
- caterpillar bracelet
- the easiest decorative knot there is (the long knot)
- Beaded flower
- Right angle weave heart
- Beaded cabochon
- Bead Basics Bootcamp
- Chinese Button Knot Pendant
- twisted herrigbone tubes
- brick stitch
- Simple beaded cabochon
setting
- Bead crochet micro-tutorial
Some rules of thumb:
- strung bead length to finished 5 stitch rope length is 4:1
- strung bead length to stringing thread length (for
takeup) is 3:1
- use a highly twisted stringing thread to reduce the
problem of splitting threads with the crochet hook
- use upholstery thread or tatting thread vs general
crochet thread
- use a #1 crochet hook
- the next stitch is picked up from the loop with
the bead
- Polymer clay bead introduction (bake @275F for 1/2hr)
- Home-made bead spinners
- Hugs and Kisses (embellished right
angle weave)
- Peyote Beaded Beads
- Right Angle Weave (RAW) lariat
- spiral rope
- African helix
- basic wirework
- Chinese knotted earrings
- Crystal heart
- Modified daisy stitch bracelet
- Bracelet swap 2004
- Bracelet swap 2003
