Today I taught the Beaded Button Workshop at the sewing group. Everyone made good progress on her button, with several finished in our two-hour workshop.
This workshop started (and ended) with the Big Bead Mess in the Room Soon to Be Known As the Room Formerly Known as Pink. I made kits for everyone with fabric, a needle, thread, beads, and a button form. Making the kits was what caused the Big Bead Mess. Or at least that’s my current excuse. It will be cleaned up by next week.
These are my sample buttons.
Members of the group are experienced seamstresses, and about half of them had come to the beading workshop I did last spring. That meant we could work rather quickly.
Getting started:
In progress:
After the fabric was beaded, we put it on the button form. This is done just as if you were making a regular beaded button.
Almost finished:
A beaded button:
Because it was snowing a little, I did not take time to go to the bead store after the workshop. Perhaps I have enough beads in the Big Bead Mess.