Kaleidocycles, BatCycles, and new ideas
Hello all! I’m writing from a beautiful sunny, cool spring day in Boston. My work perch looks out over a street busy with life; there are bikes, dogs, people walking … Continue reading
The first way to join a Kaleidocycle
As I make the video on our different joins, I am spending this weekend experimenting with as many ways to sew my 24 Flat Peyote Triangles into a Kaleidocyle as … Continue reading
Folding up Jellyfish, big Nets, and Cycles
This week and next, I’ll show you several ways that we’re making, folding and joining our Kaleidocycles, BatCycles, and other paper and beaded Machines. I hope that you will laugh with happiness … Continue reading
Flat Peyote Triangle patterns
For those of you interested in making Kaleidocycles with us in our May BeadALong, we have some nice face patterns posted in the Free Pattern Library. The idea is to copy, … Continue reading
Butterfly Assemblies
Advanced beaders and/or Warped Hex Masters, would you like to play with our Butterfly Assemblies? We would LOVE to see what you make, and we look forward to including your best … Continue reading
May BeadALong, Cycling Machines
Hello all! The Cycles chapters are the last to finish now in the CGB book series, and we are just now working Open Source-style with a couple of them, the … Continue reading
Snipping to separate a Cast from a Casting Model
By request, a quick (less than 5 minute) close-up of Snipping as a way to separate a PodCast from a bangle. This bangle has a Rick-Rack Sizing Band (orange and yellow) … Continue reading
PodCast video
Would you like to have a little class on Deconstruction, PodCast Beads, and Exploding Sets? This 45 minute session will show you all of these techniques. Make your own PodCast … Continue reading
The Pod reveals more of its secrets…
Good morning from a sunny springy morning in Boston. Thanks much to everyone who is beading PodCast Beads along with us, asking questions, finding joy, confusion, or enlightenment in the … Continue reading
Casting a Rick-Rack Bangle off of a PodCast bead
Let’s investigate how to use the little Podcast Bead to cast off a Rick-Rack Bangle. I’m making a video this weekend to answer questions and demonstrate all of the … Continue reading
