What Age

theepowwowchic49 · 08-05-2003, 03:45 PM

I 'm sure this has been asked but since I don't see it anywhere I will ask anyway?

At what age did you begin to bead? Who taught you?

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I was 6 when I began learning by my Mommah. She started me with Lazy . Hmmmm? Was she trying to tell me something? :Chatter

wyo_rose · 08-05-2003, 04:43 PM

I was 7 when my Grandma started me out on a loom. Still have the same loom (with the same old unfinished project :p) jks

When I was 13 I started to applique or tack. At 15 I got into lazy stitch and peyote/gourd.

tiBBy · 08-05-2003, 05:06 PM

:o geez u beaderz...TibbZ wuz old before she picked up her beading needle...*L*

i guess i really didn't start beading until 17 even tho i have seen grandmothers and aunties bead since i was a weeeee lad...*L*

Flat Stitch is my style...and i had to start workin on my technique beading medallion...after medallion...while my auntie ripped out medallion after medallion...*L*

guess i picked it up aight....now when i see my "auntie mommy", she wants to see what i am workin on now!!!

**spottedeagle** · 08-05-2003, 06:20 PM

I started beading in Oct. last year. I'm 29 now. My dad gave me some pointers over the phone, on the computer and I read several books. But once I started, it was like I've been doing it forever. I can't explain it, I just know I enjoy it. I beaded a couple little ankle braclets for my wife and daughter. After that I beaded my wife's rose belt and then started on my eagle belt I'm doing now.

When my dad came up for Christmas he showed me applique and peyote, but I haven't used either very much, ........ yet. A friend is going to teach me lazy stitch this fall.

dreamer · 08-06-2003, 02:56 PM

I started when I was about 16 - learned from one of my mom's friends. First thing I learned was gourd stitch to do a fan handle, and it's all but falling apart these days since it was the first thing I made...

After that I picked up loom and applique, but didn't do too much beadwork while I was in college. Since graduation I've had a lot more time to bead. :)

WolfTears · 08-06-2003, 03:15 PM

:D I started beading when I was 5 or so , then 8 years ago had an acceident an lost allot of memory , so now I have been beading again for 3 years an let me tell you since I can recall a few things all I want to do is bead bead bead . I make about 10 items a week barretts, hat bands earrings . An since I saw the bead work here have even tried appliq which I am addictted to now . Yeah I know I cant spell but I sure can beadddddd .. Love it cant get enough of it ... Lets bead ....;)

JingleBelle · 08-06-2003, 04:19 PM

7-ish, learned at school. We had a beading class once a week all through elementry.

Dat1NdnGuy · 08-07-2003, 02:36 AM

SomeWheres around 6 or 7 I learned just by watching my dad's Girlfriend. No one really sat me down and Showed me how to do any style or stitch in particular, of course I don't know how to ask for help...So I just watched and went at beading head on. I did ALL my own work after that, which eventually lead to 2 fully beaded outfits...and I helped out with a TON of other folks stuff here in the NW.:D

WolfTears · 08-07-2003, 03:04 AM

:D I like that Dat1NDN, I am the runt of 8 , an I needed to find something that made me feel I could do it just cuz . So beading is my thing . An these days thats all I think about .. Hope that is not a sign I am getting old.:D

Blackbear · 08-07-2003, 03:59 AM

oh gee... 7 or 9... I really can't remember the age..just young and it was a choker for my first experience...then quill earrings, and then bracelets and then.... I got a book on peyote stitch that I suddenly started making some really intersting things..I won't go into that though LOL...

WolfTears · 08-07-2003, 04:31 AM

LOL Black Bear I was hoping you would . ITs all your fault since I looked at your appliq thread ...I cant see any of my tables for looking at old patterns an sorting through beads ...yep all your fault....:D

Blackbear · 08-08-2003, 04:07 AM

Well at least I am getting folks hooked on beads and not drugs and debauchery right? ROFLMAO!!! Actually debauchery promotion was my talent... things change when you get kids..:(

WolfTears · 08-08-2003, 04:16 AM

yeah its all good Black Bear ...I finished both my little turtles cute little things . Now I am working on a vet feather for the back of my cape over lay ..Dang now I am hooked on appliq alllll your fault but lovin it .........Show me more ...btw loved your page ...You do such wonderful work ...It will take me 20 more years to get that good .......hehe lets bead.

Suzizila · 08-10-2003, 03:31 AM

I got started when I was about 10 or 11. Most of the instruction I received was from books at library. My first projects were loom work and those old wire and bead rings.....anyone remember those?.......Later on, I started working on rosettes. I really didn't have a beading teacher.......it was all books, trial, and error.

sate_bo_hone · 08-11-2003, 08:35 AM

I started beading when i was 12 or 13. My mother taught me gourd stitch, My sister taught me Medallions, Loom work from my Grandmother, Do all my own flat work, Usually use size 13 cuts. but depends on what im working on, if its something big I will usually use size 12 if i need it done in a hurrry....LOL! Been leaning more and more to using size 12 3-cuts. I usually use size 12 to outline my projects and use 13 to fill it in. Also starting to use hex beads.

WolfTears · 08-11-2003, 03:54 PM

ok ok dont anyone hit me with the rolling pin yet ...Please give a bit of 411 on the advantage of the size 13s , I use 11 allot because I can go to the store here an get them an not wait on shipping I am not one that likes to wait ..but if there is more of an advantage then I guess I will have to look into this ...:D an I hear ya on the size 12 lol lol sometimes I want to use crow beads ...lol

Candy · 08-19-2003, 04:02 PM

I started looming about a year ago. Finally found instructions for rosettes and peyote that make sense to me, but I haven't had the time to try anything, yet.

08-05-2003, 03:45 PM	#1 (permalink)
theepowwowchic49 Senior Dancer Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Right off 270 & Main Posts: 522	What Age I 'm sure this has been asked but since I don't see it anywhere I will ask anyway? At what age did you begin to bead? Who taught you? ========== **==========**============= I was 6 when I began learning by my Mommah. She started me with Lazy . Hmmmm? Was she trying to tell me something? :Chatter __________________ Friends dont let friends take home ugly Men. :huddle: :indian1: THE DARKER THE FLESH THEN THE DEEPER THE ROOTS :indian1:

08-05-2003, 05:06 PM	#3 (permalink)
tiBBy Junior Dancer Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Posts: 194	:o geez u beaderz...TibbZ wuz old before she picked up her beading needle...L i guess i really didn't start beading until 17 even tho i have seen grandmothers and aunties bead since i was a weeeee lad...L Flat Stitch is my style...and i had to start workin on my technique beading medallion...after medallion...while my auntie ripped out medallion after medallion...L guess i picked it up aight....now when i see my "auntie mommy", she wants to see what i am workin on now!!! __________________ ~.~ A friend is~.~ " someone who can sing the song in your heart, even when you have forgotten the words...;)"

08-05-2003, 06:20 PM	#4 (permalink)
spottedeagle FANMAKR Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Soaring over you Posts: 4,474	I started beading in Oct. last year. I'm 29 now. My dad gave me some pointers over the phone, on the computer and I read several books. But once I started, it was like I've been doing it forever. I can't explain it, I just know I enjoy it. I beaded a couple little ankle braclets for my wife and daughter. After that I beaded my wife's rose belt and then started on my eagle belt I'm doing now. When my dad came up for Christmas he showed me applique and peyote, but I haven't used either very much, ........ yet. A friend is going to teach me lazy stitch this fall. __________________ The things you are doing today are the traditions of twenty-five years from now. -Daryl Baldwin: Miami

08-07-2003, 02:36 AM	#8 (permalink)
Dat1NdnGuy Aint Dat Sumptin? Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 1,028	SomeWheres around 6 or 7 I learned just by watching my dad's Girlfriend. No one really sat me down and Showed me how to do any style or stitch in particular, of course I don't know how to ask for help...So I just watched and went at beading head on. I did ALL my own work after that, which eventually lead to 2 fully beaded outfits...and I helped out with a TON of other folks stuff here in the NW.:D __________________ "Out greatest fear is not that we are inadequate, our greatest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us." "Never Compromise yourself, Your all you've got" "An eye for an eye will only lead to a blind world."

08-07-2003, 03:59 AM	#10 (permalink)
Blackbear Space Cowboy Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Alaska Posts: 9,618	oh gee... 7 or 9... I really can't remember the age..just young and it was a choker for my first experience...then quill earrings, and then bracelets and then.... I got a book on peyote stitch that I suddenly started making some really intersting things..I won't go into that though LOL... __________________ Don't worry that it's not good enough for anyone else to hear... just sing, sing a song.

08-05-2003, 04:43 PM	#2 (permalink)
wyo_rose Teenah's Too Cool Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Fort Washakie Posts: 8,019 Blog Entries: 2	I was 7 when my Grandma started me out on a loom. Still have the same loom (with the same old unfinished project :p) jks When I was 13 I started to applique or tack. At 15 I got into lazy stitch and peyote/gourd.

08-06-2003, 02:56 PM	#5 (permalink)
dreamer Pow Wow Visitor Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 5	I started when I was about 16 - learned from one of my mom's friends. First thing I learned was gourd stitch to do a fan handle, and it's all but falling apart these days since it was the first thing I made... After that I picked up loom and applique, but didn't do too much beadwork while I was in college. Since graduation I've had a lot more time to bead. :)

08-06-2003, 03:15 PM	#6 (permalink)
WolfTears StrongWillowsSister Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Nashville Tenn Posts: 804	:D I started beading when I was 5 or so , then 8 years ago had an acceident an lost allot of memory , so now I have been beading again for 3 years an let me tell you since I can recall a few things all I want to do is bead bead bead . I make about 10 items a week barretts, hat bands earrings . An since I saw the bead work here have even tried appliq which I am addictted to now . Yeah I know I cant spell but I sure can beadddddd .. Love it cant get enough of it ... Lets bead ....;)

08-06-2003, 04:19 PM	#7 (permalink)
JingleBelle Jingle Dress Retiree Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 77	7-ish, learned at school. We had a beading class once a week all through elementry.

08-07-2003, 03:04 AM	#9 (permalink)
WolfTears StrongWillowsSister Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Nashville Tenn Posts: 804	:D I like that Dat1NDN, I am the runt of 8 , an I needed to find something that made me feel I could do it just cuz . So beading is my thing . An these days thats all I think about .. Hope that is not a sign I am getting old.:D

08-07-2003, 04:31 AM	#11 (permalink)
WolfTears StrongWillowsSister Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Nashville Tenn Posts: 804	LOL Black Bear I was hoping you would . ITs all your fault since I looked at your appliq thread ...I cant see any of my tables for looking at old patterns an sorting through beads ...yep all your fault....:D

08-08-2003, 04:07 AM	#12 (permalink)
Blackbear Space Cowboy Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Alaska Posts: 9,618	Well at least I am getting folks hooked on beads and not drugs and debauchery right? ROFLMAO!!! Actually debauchery promotion was my talent... things change when you get kids..:( __________________ Don't worry that it's not good enough for anyone else to hear... just sing, sing a song.

08-08-2003, 04:16 AM	#13 (permalink)
WolfTears StrongWillowsSister Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Nashville Tenn Posts: 804	yeah its all good Black Bear ...I finished both my little turtles cute little things . Now I am working on a vet feather for the back of my cape over lay ..Dang now I am hooked on appliq alllll your fault but lovin it .........Show me more ...btw loved your page ...You do such wonderful work ...It will take me 20 more years to get that good .......hehe lets bead.

08-10-2003, 03:31 AM	#14 (permalink)
Suzizila Junior Dancer Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Right by the Spay-lay-wi-theepi Posts: 206	I got started when I was about 10 or 11. Most of the instruction I received was from books at library. My first projects were loom work and those old wire and bead rings.....anyone remember those?.......Later on, I started working on rosettes. I really didn't have a beading teacher.......it was all books, trial, and error.

08-11-2003, 08:35 AM	#15 (permalink)
sate_bo_hone Tiny Tot Dancer Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Anadarko, OK Posts: 76	I started beading when i was 12 or 13. My mother taught me gourd stitch, My sister taught me Medallions, Loom work from my Grandmother, Do all my own flat work, Usually use size 13 cuts. but depends on what im working on, if its something big I will usually use size 12 if i need it done in a hurrry....LOL! Been leaning more and more to using size 12 3-cuts. I usually use size 12 to outline my projects and use 13 to fill it in. Also starting to use hex beads. __________________ Life's Too Short........Pow-Wow Hard!!

08-11-2003, 03:54 PM	#16 (permalink)
WolfTears StrongWillowsSister Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Nashville Tenn Posts: 804	ok ok dont anyone hit me with the rolling pin yet ...Please give a bit of 411 on the advantage of the size 13s , I use 11 allot because I can go to the store here an get them an not wait on shipping I am not one that likes to wait ..but if there is more of an advantage then I guess I will have to look into this ...:D an I hear ya on the size 12 lol lol sometimes I want to use crow beads ...lol

08-19-2003, 04:02 PM	#17 (permalink)
Candy Junior Dancer Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Close enough to I-70 to smell the fumes. Posts: 100	I started looming about a year ago. Finally found instructions for rosettes and peyote that make sense to me, but I haven't had the time to try anything, yet. __________________ He who laughs last thinks slowest.