Advanced Beading Course
with Jan Cahill
Written by Cathy Charles with special thanks to Jan Cahill and Deb Lewis
The Melbourne Bead Symposium was preceded by an advanced beading course instructed by Jan Cahill. The above eye chockies (chockie being the Aussie version of candy) are all beads Jan created prior to the course to help inspire us in class.
Over the two days we created round (not to be confused with donut beads!), square, triangle, barrel, Jan's UFOs - also known as bi-cones but doesn't UFO sound much better and melon beads. These were the basis for creating some of the best sculptural beads I have ever done. From these base beads we went on to make a fish, kidlet and turtle.
The following are some of the beads I made over the two days.
July 2004
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