Rose Mary Jameson
Rose Mary's experience in designing award-winning skating and theater costumes, wedding gowns and original day wear gives her designs sparkle and impact. She was a finalist in the 2007 Swarovski International Design Contest and published several patterns in the "Bead-a-Day Calendars."
Her neckpieces, bracelets and earrings often feature Austrian crystals and bright color. Rose Mary's original designs range from earthy leather and gemstone bracelets to brightly colored beaded beads to elegant crystal and silver necklaces and chandelier earrings. They're fresh and young or elegant and mature depending upon her intended audience. Youre sure to find something that suits your individual style in Rose Mary's portfolio.
Make tubular beads with scraps of fabric. Stamp on the fabric ahead of time, embellish the finished beads with glitter, wire wrap them, dip their ends in metallic paints, hotfix crystals to them -- the possibilities seem endless. When they're decorated to your satisfaction, combine them with chain and small lengths of yarn, combine them with crystals on head pins and join all together into a wonderful bracelet or necklace.
Beaded Mini-drop Rings
The rings that are the base of this bracelet are a valuable component for any bead weaver to learn. Here they're embellished with mini-drops and joined with flat peyote that's further embellished with Austrian crystals. Finish off with a peyote toggle bar.
Bountiful Harvest
An undulating spiral rope supports cleverly spaced groups that resemble clusters of grapes. Good use of color contrast and unusual small beads. A great way to showcase vintage seed beads, it looks delicate made in size 15/0 seed beads. Finish with peyote-worked toggle ring and bar. Centerpiece inspired by the work of Laura McCabe.
Crystal Heart Necklace
A right-angle-woven crystal heart dangles from strung crystals in this simply wonderful necklace.
Crystal Windows
Description coming soon.
Cuffed Creation
With a fast working peyote base, create an exciting bracelet with crystal embellishment. Add picot edging and sterling silver toggle to complete the look.
Use the Cellini spiral technique to create a special ring with seed bead daggers as the focal point. Your hand will look so glamourous when you wear it!
Dainty Circles
Description coming soon.
Delicate Victorian
This elegant bracelet comes from Rose Mary's R-A-W series. Some knowledge of beadweaving is required for this intermediate level class.
Double Dainty
The lovely flowery components in this bracelet are made using 2-sided R-A-W. It looks so pretty in a complementary color scheme.
Double Spiral with Slide
Embellish as you create the double spiral using different sizes, shapes and/or colors of beads. Magatamas would make the rope look really lush. When the spiral is complete, add a peyote-woven tube slide embellished with sparkling beads and Bali-style spacers.
Earrings
Remeniscent of embellished Indian sari fabric, these Laura McCabe inspired earrings will lift any special outfit to the next level.
Embroidered Embellishment with Beads
Quilters, fabric artists and beaders all enjoy learning surface embellishment and hand embroidery techniques in this class. Use it to decorate a quilt, wall-hanging, jacket, purse or pendant.
Playing with felt is not just for kids! In this class, Rose Mary teaches you embellishment tricks for turning colorful felt balls into beads. Combine them with other handmade beads you learn to make in her Beaded Beads classes or Arty Fabric Beads and you'll have a party to wear around your neck.
String a bead soup of seed beads, gemstone nuggets and crystals onto many strands. Combine them into a cone and finish off with a single strand of varied gemstones. Stunning!
Fancy Bling Bracelet
Description coming soon.
Fancy Rings and Things
Create your own bling! Beautiful rings for your fingers and a cube fob for your phone or scissors. Great way to use up extra crystals. Plus, try your hand at several techniques and learn about new findings.
Film Strip Wrap Bracelet
When Tila beads were introduced beaders looked for ways to incoporate them into their designs. Here Rose Mary turns a bead and leather wrap bracelet into a unique look of a film strip with the use of Tila beads.
Fluffy Miracle
Description coming soon.
Free-form Peyote
Peyote is such a zen-like stitch once you're started that it's easy to see it as boring. Learn to put some zip into it by letting yourself go free. A special lampwork bead works well as a focal point and jumping off place for your color story.
French Beaded Flowers
This traditional French beading technique is used to create fascinating flowers. Use them as home decor, a fancy brooch, or, as Rose Mary did, create many for a magnificent heirloom bridal bouquet.
Got Fringe?
Learn a variety of fringing techniques to accent a peyote based amulet bag.
Infinity Lariat
Though the centerpiece of this necklace is the infinity symbol ¥, you'll find it a quick and easy stringing project. The result is a great gift when made from uniformly shaped gemstones with dangling accents.
Itty Bitty Bling Bracelet
This bracelet uses Austrian crystals in groups of four, allowing you to create your own fantastic colorway of just a few colors or many. It's a great grandmother's bracelet when done in birth stone colors.
Meditation Beads
Nearly every culture and religion uses beads for meditation purposes. Create a gift for someone special that honors their particular use.
Micro-Macrame
An updated use for an old technique! Rose Mary took a class from Kris Buchanan, began teaching from Kris' books at Monica's and now tests Kris' designs. You'll enjoy the large range of options available when combining micro-macrame with beads -- from earth woman to elegant diva.
Miracle Bead Bracelet and Earrings
Here's a great project for using those miracle beads that you had to buy but don't know what to make with them.
Ocean's Reef
Evoke the coral branches and seawee tendrils dancing in the waves with this stunning bracelet. Built on a twisting base that goes together quickly, use your bead soup stash to embellish this charmer.
A simple peyote cuff steps up to the next level with the addition of pearls on the edge.
Princess Bracelet
Create a beautiful bracelet using Austrian crystals. Work with a great wire/thread that keeps it all together. Finish with a dainty filigree clasp.
Railroad Pearls Bracelet
The pearls run down the middle of this bracelet like a railroad track. It's a beginner-intermediate project, but some knowledge of square stitch is required.
A delicate bracelet and earring set using right-angle-weave with a very unusual twist in the stitch combination. Design your color scheme using three different hues of crystals. R-A-W experience required.
Rosette Bracelet
This design contrasts with many of Rose Mary's other R-A-W projects in the dense look of the rosettes. The colorway you select will determine how serious or light-hearted your final product looks. This is an intermediate project requiring R-A-W experience.
Striped In-a-Belly Bracelet
If you've already learned Ndebele (also known as herringbone stitch), here's a great next project. Create a beautiful bracelet using size 6/0, 8/0 and 11/0 seed beads and crystals. Add dimension with embellishment and learn a quick twist for joining sections.
Swirling Flowers
The flowers will swirl around your wrist when you've completed this intermediate level R-A-W project.
Tile Beauty Bracelet
Tila beads, Czech fire polish beads and seed beads combine in an elegant cuff.
Wide Miracle Bead Bracelet
Learn cross-weave and R-A-W techniques to create this delight bracelet made with miracle beads.
Wrap Around Bracelet
Here, two sizes of silver colored beads combine with leather into an elegant wrap bracelet with a bit of an edge .
Wrapped Tube Bangle
Flexible plastic tubing forms the core of this eye-catching bangle, taught at Monica's through the courtesy of Beth Kraft.
Sit and Bead - "
Meet with Rose Mary and other beady friends to finish your UFOs (UnFinished Objects). Registration and payment prior to the session is required. $10