My Cousin

[Tom]

I'd like to take this time to introduce my cousin Baraba Grainger, she is the daughter of my mothers first cousin on the USA side of the boarder!
She has really become very huge in the beadwork world!
I have invited her here so I hope that she'll join us when time allows!
http://members.aol.com/beadteach/BarbsPage.html

[lynellarainhawk]

:) This is way COOL, Tom!:cool: I can't wait to get to know her! This is wonderful! I hope time allows her real soon. Love & light, Lynella.

[Barb]

Hello Tom :)

Thank you for your kind introduction. I'm thrilled to be here.

I am still trying to figure out how to use the forum, so if I don't answer a post right away you'll know why :)

Thank you for inviting me to this forum.

Barb

[saj]

Barb,
Your work is beautiful..
Sue J

And thanks Tom!

[Tom]

Hey Barb, thank you for replying, There's some really neat things happening here and the folks are all great!
Since you're the "big noise" in beadwork these days I hope that you can share a bit and learn as much! Welcome to my favorite site!

[lynellarainhawk]

Barb.,

:) I'm so glad you made it! I am also glad you're into beading. And Very beautiful work I might add! It's going to be so good to have you here. Thank you for posting and.....Thank you Tom, for sending her our way!;) Love & Light, Lynella.

[Barb]

Thank you Tom and Lynella for the welcome. I'm glad to be here. And yes, of course if you have beadwork questions I'll try to answer them or point you to someone who can. :)

Lynella, do you do beadwork too?

Have a wonderful day :)

Barb

[lynellarainhawk]

Barb.,

I dabble with it. I have since I was about 10 years old. My problem now is the medication I'm on makes my hands tremmor slightly, just sometimes, but it about drives me nuts when I'm trying to work with the tiny seed beads!;) It's very nice to meet you and yes, we have to get with Linda and talk beading! Love & Light, Lynella.

[Barb]

Thank you Sue for your kind words about my beadwork. :)
Barb

[Barb]

Hi again Lynella,

What type of seedbead work do you do? Loom? offloom or?

I'm having a little difficulty navigating the forum here since its format is a bit different than I'm used to.

The forums I'm used to have a reply button at the end of each post and you can reply directly to that individual post. Here, I only see a reply button at the end of the page. Is it a kind of universal reply button or?

One lady on another list I'm on says she has shaking hands too and that she sits in her easy chair and rests her elbows on the chair's arms. She says that helps.

:) Barb

[lynellarainhawk]

Barb.,

Universal reply button! Yes, I think that's it!:D

I'm wanting to learn how to do some of this stuff I keep buying books on. Peyote Stitch, And the bead embroidery, I love that! The crochet stuff I would like to learn. I've never used a loom. I don't know what I've always done is called. Take a thin line, put however many beads on there ya' want, say for instance, 2, then 2 more and loop one end of the thread back through the last 2 beads, add 2 more to one side and loop the line back through the last 2, on and on gradually adding beads and colors then decreasing again back to the 2. So you have say a bracelet there with a wide pattern in the center. Ad fastenings. I've made bottle covers, ear rings, rings, bracelets, chokers that way since I was just little. Don't recall where I learned it. I have a loom, but haven't even gotten it out of the box yet. I love doing the embroidery with beads. Butterflies on halter tops, things like that.

I suppose arm rests would work if they were up really high!:D Have to get things up close to see!;) Thank you, and Love & Light, Lynella.

[Barb]

Hello Lynella,

From the description, I'd say you may be doing 'brick stitch." I'd have to see it to actually know. But the description sounds like brick. It also has other names, but the contemporary name for it is brick stitch.

If you are wanting to learn peyote stitch (aka gourd stitch) you can got o Suzanne Cooper's site. She has some free instructions on how to do it. http://www.suzannecooper.com You'll want to go to her beads section and then to the 'Jumpstart Classroom'. If you need more links I can give you some. :)

Barb

[lynellarainhawk]

Barb.,

:cool: Ooh, way cool! Thank You! I think you just might put the word fun back into beading!;) Lynella.

[Linda]

Welcome Barb, thanks for posting here. I'm very impressed with your work. I've never seen anyone do anything that three-dimensional. Is that something you've cooked up? I've certainly never heard anybody talk about a technique that would produce that, except maybe the Tuscarora who bead with wire to make three dimensional work. But this looks different. I assume this is a necklace. I wouldn't think anything to be worn could be made from wire. The form seems to derive from the way the beads are stitched together. Am I right?

[Barb]

Hello, Thank you for your kind words about my beadwork. It is not NA beadwork. It is contemporary beadwork and is done with beads and thread only. Various off-loom technques are used. Occasionally, I bead around an object though.

I have several pieces on my website so I don't know which piece you are asking about. If you let me know which one, I can tell you a little more about it.

There is a move towards 3-D beadwork in the contemporary beadwork field. A lot of people do it now days. In some circles I'm known as a 'contemporary beadwork pioneer' because I explore different techniques, often re-inventing a stitch or tweaking it so you can do different things with it. That's what I like to do most. Right now though, with my Father's passing and me and my hubby both sick with the flu, beading is the farthest thing from my mind. :)

Have a wonderful day.

[Linda]

Yes, I thought it was contemporary beadwork. I was referring to the pictured linked at the top of this thread. Hope your family recovers soon.