“I WAS ON THE LOOKOUT for a hobby that would capture me. Then one day I was walking down Smith Street of Collingwood in Melbourne and noticed the Bead Company and some sparkly beads. That was it. I was well and truly kidnapped.”
What captured Sandra’s heart was the art of bead weaving, and in particular ‘off loom’ weaving where beads are threaded tightly together with string or hand stitched onto fabric. The stitch can also be used on an object such as a ball – or bigger (as in Sandra’s ambitious case).
“I first began beading by learning how to do the brick stitch. I loved it
