International Beading Week is here

We're having the best of weeks right now and our Guild,  the Beadworkers Guild, has again a wonderful programme of speakers and teachers during the Zoom sessions they organize. I cannot even start to tell how excited I am to see Jill Wiseman in person coming Thursday, not to speak about the wonderful Edgar Lopez! 

Awe-inspiring bead artist Floor Kaspers is back with us again too, with a pattern for her ribbon necklace and a presentation about conceptual beadwork. 

You can still sign up to participate in the Zoom sessions, the Guild has pushed the limit of the number of attendants a bit up so that nobody misses out!
 

We had great joy with our Australian friends in the morning of Saturday and Sunday, and I did a bit of Q&A about the Yearlong Rainbow challenge and the Beadworkers Guild Challenge. 

Have I already talked about the challenge on this blog? Sure!! But maybe you will like to be reminded of how it works. To keep the IBW group active and interesting we do some kind of Bead-a-long. We bead components in the colors of the IBW banner. 12 colors, 12 months. Each month another color, and in the end we all have a fabulous beaded treasure in the colors of the happiest thing on earth, the rainbow.

This year I made a Solitaire board for which I covered beads with marbles. It is inspired by Floor Kaspers beautiful colour mixes.

 

As every year, I offer the pattern for my IBW rainbow project to the community.

 

You are welcome to join us in the Facebook group. You can also learn more about the guidelines on the IBW website.

But for now, we all are having fun making new designs so generously offered by other beaders and designers. Just look at all the goodies you will find on the website here.

This year we also have something new: the Guild organizes a Gift exchange. I don't know for who it will be but this is my make for this lovely Swap. 

Hopefully it will be something my swappee will like. Fingers crossed!

Last but not least: I do a special sale!! Use code IBW2024 to get 25% off of all patterns and books.

Happy shopping and happy beading and 

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL BEADING WEEK!!!!!!!!!

Cath