The vision in one eys is all but obliterated by glaucoma, my depth perception is shot, making it very difficult to string a small seed bead on my thread; my coordination is in about the same condition as my depth perception, making it difficult to pass a needle through the next bead in my project; my back and hips rebel at sitting in the same position for very long at a time, making it necessary to get up and move around often, which means it takes me many time as long as it should to complete a project or illustrate a design, and still I bead. Why?
I bead because it is the outward
expression of an inner conversation that words can't express.
Because the concentration on my project drowns out the chaos,
distruction, brutality and hatred with which the news and social
media constantly bombard the world.
I bead because it fulfulls me. It keeps me thinking. It gives me new things to learn. There are an infinite number of modifications to a myriad of stitches and I haven't discovered them all yet. In short, it keeps my young!
I bead because you, my customers,
deserve to wear beauty outwardly that reflects the inner beauty of
your soul.
Why do you bead?
Patterns for all the designs shown here, plus many more, can be found in my Craftsy Pattern Store.
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