Beading Crochet Workshop

Susan Goldstine, one of St. Mary's math professors, had a session for learning how to bead crochet. This was an interactive workshop where we all learned how to do basic beading crochet. We started out with some crochet that had already been started. From there, Susan taught us how to continue beading and how to fix our mistakes if/when we made them. This was my finished product of the first beading I had done:

As you can see, the beads line up and spiral around. Luckily, it wasn't too difficult to follow!

After finishing the first one, we had the option to either undo our original work to practice some more or start a new strand of our own. I started my own strand and starting is a bit awkward and confusing. Susan was there to help though, and I eventually got it. You start out with about a foot of yarn for every 9 beads, so she told us to pick five colors and get ten of each color. Therefore, 5*10 = 50, so about 5 feet of yarn (more or less...more probably would have been better). As I mentioned before, starting a strand was a bit difficult, but after getting into the swing of things, I managed to make this:

This was a bit smaller than I expected, but it turned out fairly well! I needed more string, but otherwise I was very happy with it.

This was a very fun workshop and Susan even showed us some of her own work. One can make bracelets using this idea and smaller beads (much more difficult). It is a good pastime and I will hopefully continue it and learn more soon!