Carol Cypher February 2014 In-Town Retreat
Carol Cypher Workshops
5905 Slater
Merriam, KS 66202
Just EAST of I-35 and just South of Johnson Drive on Slater
(behind the Walgreens)
New Date Saturday - February 22nd
Saturday - February 15, 2014
2 Sessions
9 am - 12 pm & 2 pm - 5 pm
$20 per half day session
A Bevy of Bezels (I) and/or (2)
Create beautiful beaded bezels in an array of sizes and shapes that are lovely from every angle. This method, focusing primarily on an African Polygon stitch, produces highly textured and corrugated beadwork. Each tiny beaded basket securely holds its rivoli or faceted stone. You'll be amazed at how joyfully and quickly they work up. Unlike usual bezel styles worn flat and viewed straight-on, these bezels beg to be worn in ways that display all 360 degrees of their elegance. This is 1 of 2 sessions. Take either class or both. 2-4 different designs will be taught in each class. One is designed to be used without a stone, lovely inside and out.
Saturday AM
New Date Sunday - February 23rd
Sunday - February 16, 2014
1 Session
9 am – 5 pm
(2 hours Lunch Break)
$40 for the full day
Saturday PM
Beyond The Red Velvet Rope...NecklaceCombine shiny, even sparkling, beads, with matte and durable finish metallic seed beads in a design that looks like ribbons spiraling around a core. This is African Helix in a complexity you've never experienced. Discover the fascinating effect that bead size and stitch number and content have on outcome. Ina few inches, incorporate larger beads and in greater numbers per stitch to create a plush center with a deep channel. A swirl of red velvet crystals nestles in that channel and reappears at each end.
Intermediate level. 6 hour workshop
Kits will be available for purchase or a supply list
will be provided
with receipt of class fees
Bead Bucks or checks for the class fees may be sent to:
Susie White
2704 South 69th Street
Kansas City, Ks 66106.
You may contact Susie White at: WWhite4718@aol.com or 913-205-1334
Carol will attend our February 14th membership meeting where
she'll have a trunk show of her great kits and tell us about her life as a bead artist.
Carol Cypher a professional fiber artist focusing on feltmaking and beadwork, is known for her provocative pairing of the two mediums. Cypher teaches workshops throughout the U.S.A., Australia, Germany, the U.K. and Japan, and her work is exhibited and widely published in these places. Her first book, HAND FELTED JEWELRY AND BEADS: 25 ARTFUL DESIGNS enjoyed a couple of printings and is now declared "out of print". Her book MASTERING BEADWORK: A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO OFF-LOOM TECHNIQUES is a compilation of 63 original projects that provide a full and rounded repertoire of beading stitches. In HOW WE FELT: DESIGNS AND TECHNIQUES FROM CONTEMPORARY FELT ARTISTS, Cypher shares tips and technique of 20 felt artists, herself included. When asked to write a book on feltmaking for the Japanese publisher Patchwork Tsushin Co., her English manuscript was translated into Japanese by Motoko Natsubori and published October 2008. She has shared her techniques on PBS, DIY and HGTV television networks in addition to workshops and classes worldwide.