On Tuesday I started working with a new group of quilters that approached me during my exhibition. They arrived at 10:30. Five ladies with various levels of quilting experience, an unknown quality. For the first meeting we decided to hold a beading lesson - till we get to know each other better. It was a big bonus that my students were friends from before, so they didn't have to get to know each other.
After a short introduction, they took out their quilts or pictures of quilts, so that I will get an idea of the work they do. And then we started with the beading. The lesson was great fun. It is great to see the faces of quilters when they realize how simple it is with a couple of very basic techniques to achieve gorgeous beaded embellishments for their quilts.
At the end of the workshop, one of them suggested that each will take one of my beaded quilts home with her for reminders and ideas LOL! I had a better suggestion - that I will take pictures of the beaded details and publish them here, so that they and all the readers of my blog can see the samples online.
I hope you are inspired by these samples. Beading on quilts, though time consuming, is also very rewarding.
These first examples show general surface treatment of adding single beads one at a time, either in a clear quilted line, scattered or as a relatively dense area filler.
The following two images show a ribbon treatment with beads only or with beads and embroidery. This type of treatment is appropriate for narrow borders or for ribbons applied to the top of the quilt.
This is a fringe that could be added to the edge of the quilt, or to a line on a quilt surface.
This is a sample of two beaded roundels - with or without petals.
The following examples show how the combination of embroidery and beading with single beads or roundels can embellish an appliqued quilt surface.
Beautiful and inspiring! that's a LOT of handwork detail!
Posted by: quiltcat | 12/25/2009 at 09:20 PM
Shulamit, these are beautiful, thank you so much for posting them - I will certainly refer to them often.
Jenny in Belgium
Posted by: Jenny De Schutter | 01/08/2010 at 07:03 PM