Beginning Beading with Amy Castine (3 sessions)
Saturday afternoons, February 14, 21 and 28
12:30 - 3:30 pm each session
While bead embroidery may look complicated, it doesn’t have to be! This fun class will introduce you to beginning bead embroidery as you learn and practice a variety of bead embroidery stitches and techniques. Over the course of the three sessions and homework, students will make an embellished sampler book as featured in First-Time Beading on Fabric by Liz Kettle: Learning to Bead in Nine Easy Lessons (required for class). Your registration fee includes a $20 kit fee, including most of the materials you will need for class. Warm or cool colored kits are available — please make your choice:
In addition to First-Time Beading on Fabric, students should bring the following supplies: any beads you already have that you want to use in your book; a favorite warm or cool colored fat quarter-sized (18 in. x 22 in.) piece of fabric to use as the cover of the book. As this is a 3-session class, you can bring your fat quarter in later to enable you to make the best match). A bead mat and triangle sorting trays are highly recommended.
About the Instructor: Artistic Artifacts staffer Amy Castine has been a bead artist and painter for over 20 years. Through her exploration of these seemingly disconnected art forms, she has found a creative language that is uniquely her own. Amy has shown her beadwork at the Woodlawn Annual Needlework show in Alexandria, VA and received award ribbons at every outing, including several 1st place awards. A member of the Potomac Fiber Arts Gallery and Del Ray Artisans, Amy is working to expand her skills as a bead weaver and embroiderer as well as exploring the results of combining painting and beadwork with surprising and beautiful results.
