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Beading Class Saturday

The class was taught by Kellie of Kellie's Bead Boutique in West Maple Ridge.  I have shopped at the store before because it is getting difficult to find bead shops in my area.  Every time I check another one has closed its doors.  Kellie' has a wide range of jewelry supplies, except bugle beads.  For some reason her supply is rather small in this realm.

We had been instructed to show up at 1 pm with the supplies already purchased.  So being the on-time type I am I showed at the store at 12:30 pm to make sure I had plenty of time to make the necessary purchases.  All this information is a long winded way of saying I had too much time to stock up on beads.

First go here to see all the beads available in this shop.  I will post my favorite of the group below.  As you can see from those photos Kellie's stocks supplies for the gamut of jewelry making techniques.  Lucky for me it is a good 13 miles/21 kilometers away.

Photo from kelliesbeadboutique.com
Second, here's a photo of the Super O bracelet we were modeling ours after in the class.

Again this photo is from the shop's website
This looked like the kind of thing I could do and indeed it was.  I have used super duo beads before (making the posies); they are the pink beads above.  The "O" beads were new to me and I rather like them.  They are the four dark beads surrounding the pink super duo above.  

Additionally we used SLon cord; a very thick, strong thread, and we used it without a needle.   I didn't mind this because frankly there are days I feel as if I spend more time threading the very slim eye of the needle than actually doing the beading work itself.  Of course, this isn't quite true, but there are times when it takes many, many tries to thread that needle. 

Supplies
These are the colors I picked for my bracelet.  The seed beads and super duos are in the turquoise range and the O beads have a dark copper colour that also exists in the super duos.  (Yes, there are flecks of it.)

The beads were easy to lace together and in two hours all five of us finished the beading part of the bracelet.  The fiddly part is the closure that uses macrame knots.  The square knots slowed me down a bit, that and the mistake I made requiring a redo.  But here is the result of the class.

My Super O bracelet
As you can see there are a few loose ends to attend to but within another 30 minutes I should be done.
Plus it seems there are enough beads to make another bracelet.  I might just change out the seed beads with another colour and see how it looks.  At $10 for two hours, it would be hard for me to find anything else more affordable to entertain myself.  Plus I stocked up with plenty of additional beads to make another bracelet next Friday.  Fun, fun, fun!


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