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Workshop Description:

Fiona Hammond will teach you how to make a special bracelet that drapes beautifully over your wrist and feels wonderful to wear. This bracelet features multiple lengths of the traditional Russian beading technique called St Petersburg Chain, and incorporates Fiona’s variation which joins the lengths of twin chain together to make a wider band.

Topics covered in the workshop:

• Basic St Petersburg Chain technique
• Creating the twin chain
• Fiona’s variation – joining the twin chains together
• Beadweaving basics: starting and finishing your threads; keeping good tension in the work; conditioning beading threads
• Attaching appropriate findings to complete your jewellery