Next week on June 15th, we are delighted to have a special guest artist, Ann Benson. Ann will be showing us different techniques on finishing our bead crochet. If you have ropes ready to finish or a current bead crochet project that you are working on, bring them along. She will also be bringing a trunk show with kits, finishing items, bead caps, etc. from her stash to name a few for your buying pleasure. These finishing items can be used on kumihimo projects, bead crocheting and bead embroidery projects.

Ann is a master bead artist whose designs, books and web tutorials on bead work are internationally acclaimed. She is a leading world authority on both bead crochet and bead embroidery. Ann Benson is also an American fiction author whose historical trilogy The Plague Tales, The Burning Road and The Physician’s Tale, is set in fourteenth century Europe during the Black Death. Her fourth novel, the mystery Thief of Souls, takes place in the time of Joan of Arc. Currently, she is working on a fifth novel, a contemporary fantasy set in post-9/11 New York. She divides her time between homes in Florida and Cape Cod.

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