Netted Wire Cabachon

Saturday, September 15th,  was the last class held at Bead Street's Cole and Ustick location.  Penny had the honors and a packed house for her Netted Wire Cabochon class.



Penny's samples using stone cabochons, crystals, smaller
semi-precious gemstones and Japanese seed beads.
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This is an intermediate/advanced class
and Penny (and her husband)
traveled from Twin Falls to Boise to teach.

A work in progress but Chris had a great start.



Dale used two metallic colors of seed beads
 which also looked fabulous. 

 

Sue made great progress as well.



Everyone was working so intently -
they were really concentrating. 

These also have semi-precious faceted gemstones
surrounding the stone cabochons.

Always entertaining, Joy had to bring a different
 Show-N-Tell project. 
Here are her freshly dug potatoes.

Some gals wanted to do a little more work with their projects so more photos coming soon.  Because it was our last weekend at Cole and Ustick - we were very, very busy and I did not have a chance to watch what the gals were doing.   If the caption under the photo is incorrect,  please let me know.  Thanks Penny, for another great class.

Netted Wire Lace Earring Class

Penny Dixon of Penny Dixon Designs taught another fabulous  netted wire earring class at Bead Street.  Penny taught everyone how to create the wire 'frames' and then how to do the wire netting as well. She used the new two-hole Czech Super Duos but the Czech Twins would also work.   The gals all did great - they all finished at least one earring and I know most of them have been working on the second one.  Will post the finished projects later.  This is what they are supposed to look like.



Penny used Opaque Luster Picasso Super Duos
and Czech glass for her sample.



Everyone really paying attention. 
The gals all mentioned how they enjoy Penny's classes.



I think this is Pink/Topaz Luster Turquoise
Super Duos and more Czech fire polish



This was the first wire class Jenny has taken. 
Probably won't be her last judging by her enthusiasm



Deb chose Green Iris Super Duos for her project.
 She loved the class as well and has already finished both her earrings.



Another beautiful color selection.



Penny used Metallic Silver Super Duos and crystal
for another class sample.  Beautiful!



And then we have Joy and her tomatoes.



I'm 'anxiously' waiting to see a couple more finished pairs and will take photographs and get those posted soon.  All the gals selected beautiful colors for their earrings and I hope to see them do more.  If you would like to see more of this technique,  check out Penny's blog and her Weathering Wire Lace Earring post.

 

Bead Street Class Schedule

We have some new classes for August and the schedule  is posted under the Classes caption in above header.  Because they are new, here are some photos.  A few more classes will be scheduled in the next week or so.  



Penny's Puffy Bead class, scheduled for Saturday, August 4th, has been full for awhile.  We may be able to convince her to do a second class if there is enough interest. 



Another color sample. Beautiful bracelet





Tila Lace Bracelet, Friday night, August 10th





Netted Wire with SuperDuos, Saturday, August 18th.  We had originally scheduled a Netted Cabochon, however, had a number of requests for something smaller.



Beaded Beads with new two-hole SuperDuos (aka Twins).  Larger one scheduled for Friday night, August 3rd and smaller bead scheduled for Friday night, August 17th

 


Tubular Beaded Crochet, Saturday, August 25th




More samples of Tubular Crochet