Albion stitch wave bead
I recently purchased a book by Heather Kingsley-Heath, Albion Stitch Book Two. (There is a Book One, which I don’t have.) It’s a full-color spiral-bound book, with excellently-designed projects based the stitch she’s named the Albion stitch. It looks to be based on an African stitch — Diane Fitzgerald describes in Zulu Inspired Beadwork how…
More bead blogs
Here’s a few more, added to this blogroll and my feed reader: Rypan Designs Roberta Warshaw Ewa FK Tomaszewska
Please help the 9/11 Bead Quilt Project!
Andrea Adams, the creator and force behind the 9/11 Memorial Bead Quilt, is asking for some help. The Bead Quilt was a project to remember and honor 9/11 victims, their families, and the heroes that emerged. It began with Andrea hoping to make a small quilt, and ended up with 576 squares from beaders around…
International Klein Blue
I have a new favorite color today. I want to somehow live in this color! I went to the Walker Art Center and their Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers. Yves Klein’s paintings were solely about color, they’re not abstract depictions of anything, but pure color. The color above is International Klein Blue, a…
Suface Design Association Confluence sessions announced
The Surface Design Association’s annual conference is going to be held in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area, with associated activities June 4-17, 2011. The sessions for Confluence have recently been announced. There’s pre-conference workshops June 4-8, an exhibition on June 9, conference sessions June 9-12, and more workshops after the conference, until the 17th. For…