Hello bead friends! I think most of us have run into a situation where we thought we had enough wire to complete a component, but it turned out that we didn’t. Maybe you estimated incorrectly, or maybe you used a lot more wire than the designer, or didn’t realize there wasn’t enough wire left on …
How to Add in New Working Wires to French Beaded Petals Read More »
I was hoping to have a new video class for my Camellia design published this month, but the system I use to provide video classes released a new version that was causing problems with the automatic order flow and other things on my website so I was a little nervous to publish it. If you …
How I choose beads From Photos for French Beaded Flowers Read More »
If you’ve been following me for a while then you know that I have a lot of bead spinners. I collect them. I’m not entirely certain why I’m obsessed with them, but I am. After someone in our Facebook group posted a picture of their cute cupcake bead spinner (from a children’s beading kit), I …
How to improve your bead spinners – Plus several new patterns! Read More »
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 …
Bear with me, you guys, this is a long post with a lot of information. We’re going to take a look at the complex issue of shading patterns in French Beading. I’m only going to cover the basics here. We’ll go further into depth on different types of shading patterns later. One question I’ve gotten …
How to Work with Multiple Bead Colors in French Beading Read More »
I’ve just published a tutorial for wrapping your French Beaded Flower stems with floss. I’ve done a tutorial on this on my previous Lauren’s Creations website, but finally found the time to update it here. There is also more and updated information than what I had published previously. You can find that tutorial here. To …
Comparing different types of embroidery floss for stem wrapping Read More »
Hello there my beady friends. I’m doing a quick little blog post today about a weird French Beading experiment I did recently. This isn’t a full blown, fully studied and tested idea where I can tell you exactly what to do or what not to do. This is just a quick little idea that I …
Can You Use Two-Hole Beads for French Beaded Flowers? Read More »
Many types of Bead Spinners One of the questions I am asked frequently is about Bead Spinners. Specifically, which ones are the best and what I recommend, so I figured I should just go ahead and do a full blog post on the subject. If by chance you don’t know what a bead spinner is, …
Let’s Talk About Bead Spinners (and a DIY bead spinner tutorial) Read More »
I’ve been quiet on purpose this time. The last couple of months I’ve been working on a rather large project, probably one of the largest things I’ve ever made (if measuring by mass) but I can’t post pictures here yet in case someone sees it before they are meant to see it… and it’s killing …
 One of my most favorite parts of French Beading is the design work, making a brand new flower from scratch. The whole process excites me. For me, at least, if it’s not challenging, then it’s not fun. ​So, when deciding where to begin with the new Tips segment on my blog, I thought it would …
An Introduction on Designing French Beaded Flowers Read More »
