Showing posts with label Twinflower Lariat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Twinflower Lariat. Show all posts

Monday 27 July 2015

Kazuri Kritters and Creative Beading!

Hello everyone!

National Beading Week has arrived and so it's been a busy few days with more demonstrations of my designs lined up at The Bead Shop (Nottingham) Ltd tomorrow, but I had to drop in and share some other news with you. Firstly, I've just received my copy of the August 2015 issue of Bead and Button magazine which has a picture of my Kazuri Kritters in the 'Your Work' section on page 17. You may remember that I made these pins in November of last year as part of my work as a design team member for Many Hands Marketplace - Kazuri West and you can see the original post and the stories I wrote for each animal here. The pins were originally going to be published as a project in Bead and Button, but it was later discovered that they are not as simple as they perhaps look and so they are not really suitable for a project. However, as my original intention was to help promote the work of the Kazuri ladies I still needed to find some way to do that and so a wonderful collaboration took place - Preciosa's excellent photographer took some pictures of the pins for me (because really, my photography is not so great!) and the editor of Bead and Button magazine agreed to publish the picture and some links in the 'Your Work' section. I'm sorry that I cannot provide you with a tutorial for these pins, but I do hope that you love these charming handmade animal shaped buttons as much as I do and that perhaps you may give some of them a new home.



The other piece of news is that I have also received a copy of the new Kalmbach publication Creative Beading Volume 10: The best projects from a year of Bead and Button magazine. I have several of these lovely hardback annuals on my shelf now and I am delighted to have had four of my projects selected for this issue. Flowercup Cascade which is the Kumihimo project I wrote for Yorkbeads is on page 194 and my Preciosa projects Flamenco Pellets, Twinflower Lariat and Organic Twist can be found on pages 74, 120 and 213 respectively.






That's all the news for now so I'll get back to preparing for my demos. Don't forget, I'll be at The Bead Shop (Nottingham) Ltd tomorrow but I will also be at the Bead Art Fair in Hamburg doing demonstrations at the Preciosa stand from August 21st to 23rd - I hope you can join the "Flower Party"!

See you next time!

Kerrie 

Saturday 10 May 2014

Twinflower Lariat!

Hello everyone!

Looking at these pictures I find it hard to believe that I made my Twinflower Lariat back in September 2012 as part of my first collection of work for Preciosa Ornela. I know that lots of people asked if the pattern would be available at the time and so I am happy to be able to tell you that you can now find the instructions on page 60 of the June 2014 issue of Bead & Button magazine!



I won't say too much about this piece as I have just joined the blogging team on the new Bead Buzz blog over at Bead & Button and I plan to talk about this in my first post. The new blog has already started with some very interesting posts from well known names from the bead world and I have been busy thinking about things I can write about in the coming months too - it all sounds very exciting, so be sure to watch that space!


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So that's it for this week but I'll be back with more beady news soon!

See you next time!

Kerrie