Some of My Favorite Beaded Embellishment Techniques

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MneMe4 — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 12:58:23 GMT

Last year members of my art quilt group each chose a Van Gogh painting and made a small quilt. I had hand appliqued a vase and after quilting the background, it became loose. I thought of stuffing it from behind or unstitching/restitching but I ended up randomly encrusting the entire vase. My most recent quilt includes a doll which is also encrusted--I am totally hooked. Future plans include beading a piece of fabric, following the colors and lines.

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whithb — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 08:29:08 GMT

Except for pinching if not wearing green, those are my only memories of St. Paddy's day. Thank you for sharing embellishment techniques. I'm a new quilter and very interested in the new ways to express my creativity

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MeganM@7 — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:14:56 GMT

Maybe many of you know this, but I found out the hard way: if you heavily bead and embellish a piece of cloth it will shrink! Lesson learned: cut to size when you are finished.

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Susan.buffaloe — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:13:58 GMT

I am a beader most of the time but these tips make me want to start quilting also! Where do you get the cocoons to make these jesters? They remind me of flowers.

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Nancy Smeltzer — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 09:22:01 GMT

I was seduced by the "thrill of the gleam" of glass beads many years ago and havd never looked back. Some of my friends call my work "Needlework Obsessive", as 1 square inch of heavy beading takes 1 hour. (Search under my name, Nancy Smeltzer, to see some of my beaded quilts in the Photo Galleries). I appreciate Andrea's suggestions to work from flat to larger pieces, but I use so many buttons in my pieces, that I work from the opposite direction, from largest to smallest, and put up with the envitable tangling of the sewing thread used to couch down the beads. I use the colors of the fabrics that I've appliqued on to dictate the colors of the beads that will be later sewn on, I have several pieces going at the same time, for as I get closer and closer to completing a piece, it may weigh as much as 25 pounds,and then becomes not so portable for when I travle or have a doctor's appointent.