Hexie Love

Did you know you can do almost anything with simple hexagon shapes? Forget grandmother’s flower garden for a moment and try out something totally different. Borrow a star or hexagon pegboard from your young ones’ toy box and play around with different coloured Hama beads. Or even better, make it a collaborating project; those round beads will magically transform into hexagons when ironed.

You’ll be amazed what great layouts that may come out of a few minutes of play. I’m totally feeling inspired!

Next time: snowball love

Scrappy bead art

Having spent the weekend with my grandkids, I thought I would share a creative exercise we have been enjoying. You can see my last bead-y post here.

We filled a small box with Hama beads and started building a picture. Grandson did most of the work on this and I helped him finishing it as there’s quite a lot of work that goes into a piece of this size and he ran out of patience before we ran out of beads.

It’s easy in the beginning when you have loads of beads in every colour, but as you run out of them, you have to get creative. It’s very much like playing with a box of scraps where you get to decide which side looks better.

Mirror imaging changes everything.

Imagine each bead being a 1” or 2” square. Wouldn’t it be cool!

Next time: hexie bead love

Have you ever

Have you ever thought about what a brilliant design tool you have in such a simple thing as Hama beads?

The ironed side looks like little squares fused together.

Imagine each bead being a fabric square and there you go.

Small pieces of art to be.

 

Cheap design possibilities in every colour.

What a treat.