Q-C beader’s design featured in Bead and Button magazine
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Larry Fisher/QUAD-CITY TIMES Debi Larson shows off her agate necklace that was featured in the March issue of Bead and Button magazine.
It was about 18 years ago when Debi Larson, then a stay-at-home mom, sent for a bead loom she had seen advertised on TV.
Since then, she has become so good at making things with beads, primarily jewelry, that one of her original designs was featured last month, along with directions on how to make it, in Bead and Button magazine.
“Bead and Button is to beaders what the Journal of Medicine is to physicians,” says Fran Reiser, owner of Your Design Ltd., an independent two-year-old bead shop in Bettendorf’s Cumberland Square shopping center, where Larson works. “It is a prestigious honor to have been selected out of thousands who submit work every month to be reviewed.”
Larson’s design for an agate necklace involves much more than simply stringing beads on a length of thread; most of it is made of strands that are woven using a needle and thread, a technique called bead weaving.
The necklace took about 15-18 hours to make, and Larson, of Park View, Iowa, teaches the technique at the shop. Some of the beads she uses are smaller than a pinhead, and the holes are even smaller.
“One of the pre-qualifications (of taking the class) is that you’ve got to be able to thread the needle (that is used to pick up the beads),” she says. “If your eye can’t do that, then you won’t be able to see the beads. And if you struggle with that, then you aren’t going to have any fun at all.”
In addition to selling supplies, the bead shop hosts classes and parties; birthday, Red Hat and bachelorette celebrations are common.
Larson sells her work through the MidCoast Fine Art Web site, www.midcoast.org, and she has been selected to be part of MidCoast’s display at the Mississippi Valley Welcome Center in LeClaire, Iowa, during 2008. She also participates in the Gallery Hop in The District of downtown Rock Island.
Alma Gaul can be contacted at (563) 383-2324 or agaul@qctimes.com.
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