BF, CL, CCL, BR…. While working with French Beading patterns, you will often come across techniques, shapes, and other parts of a pattern that have been abbreviated. I talked a little bit about these in my Learn French Beading: Beginner Course, but since some questions have come up in the Facebook group, I figured I’d do a quick blog post about them.  Some technique names are just really long, and it gets tiring to type, write, or even say them out loud over and over again. It takes up more visual space to write them out too. So, to condense patterns many designers will abbreviate the technique names, or parts of the techniques and shapes. These abbreviations are actually acronyms. So Continuous Wraparound Loops becomes CWL, and Basic Frame becomes BF.  When you’re first starting out with learning the art, the technique names and abbreviations feel like a different language.…