Instructor: Marilyn Parker

A few different ways to create a twisted rope

Materials: 

• Three colours of size 8 or size 11 seed beads, whichever you are more

comfortable using for learning purposes

• Thread

• If you want to create a necklace or bracelet you can add a clasp

Tools:

• needle, scissors and beading mat

Instructor: Pam Kearns

Also known as Daisy Chain, Potawatomi stitch is an Indigenous beading stitch usually associated with the Potawatomi people in upper Mississippi River, and western Great Lakes region of the United States.

You can achieve different looks depending on how you place the colours of your beads. Techniques Night will offer you two patterns that you can use for the entire bracelet or combine them:

• As horizontal stripes

• As vertical stripes

Materials: 

• Four colours of size 8/0 seed beads (Miyuki or Toho brands are most consistent

  • Colour A (A)

  • Colour B (B)

  • Colour C (C)

  • Border (BR)

• Size 11/0 seed beads that will coordinate with your size 8/0 beads

• One shank button

• Beading thread of choice

Tools:

• Beading needle of choice

Instructor: Gillian Clarke

These colorful and casual bracelets are made of knotted embroidery floss, yarn

or cord using a technique similar to macramé. They can be very simple or extremely elaborate and beautiful.

Traditionally they are tied onto your wrist by a friend and left in place until they

wear out and fall off.  Because we aren’t all teenagers, I will show you how to add button or snap closures so you can take them off like regular bracelets

Materials: 

• Three or four colours of embroidery floss, and/or something thicker like satin cord or cotton knitting yarn (thicker cord is easier for learning)

• A button with a shank

Tools:

• A clipboard or a piece of firm cardboard and a binder clip. 

• Sharp scissors