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Help Save the Bead Museum!!!!

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The Bead Museum in Glendale, AZ is in danger of closing after 23 yrs.

We can’t let this happen!!!!  As an amazing national (and international) resource, this would be an enormous loss to the bead community as well as to historic and cultural reseachers.  This is only museum in the world dedicated to the preservation and research of beads and beaded artifacts. The Bead Museum’s collection rivals( and in several instances surpasses) cultural anthropology and archeology exhibits in the Smithsonian or Peabody museums. The museum’s most rare beads are 40,000 years old.

To find out more about the museum’s situation, read here.   From the Bead Museum website: 20 ways you can help it from closing. Their website mainpage has a paypal button you can click and send a donation. Also, the wonderful people at Interweave has made it easy and quick for everyone to make a $5 donation thru their website to help keep the museum doors open.

I’ve been to the museum the one time I was in Phoenix.  It’s really amazing  museum and resource for jewelry artists.  I encourage all my readers to help save the Bead Museum by doing what you can, and helping to spread the word.

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This year of ice creams from Simone Balman Art is lots of fun, and you could also stitch up these treats individually if you’d rather. The full piece is 210 by 300 stitches, though it’s not full coverage. It uses 25 colors and comes out to 13.6 by 20.1 inches, or 34.5 by 51.2 cm, as shown on 14 count fabric. 

These mini Popsicles from Mariana Gonclaves ART as super sweet and quick to stitch. These would also be a fun border to another summer project. The full design is 43 by 46 stitches, which is 3.1 by 3.3 inches, or 7.8 by 8.3 cm, on 14 count fabric. 

Sam X Stitch has this fun sweet treat sampler, which again would be fun to stitch as individual pieces (maybe on napkins?). In all it calls for 18 colors and measures 153 by 153 stitches. That comes out to 10.93 inches or 27.75 cm on 14 count fabric. 

Another great sampler is this one with ice cream and other sweet treats from Cute Patterns by Maria. At 119 by 132 stitches total, working the full pattern would be about 8.6 by 9.4 inches, or 22 by 24 cm on 14 count fabric, and it uses 33 colors. You can also stitch individual designs, which range in height from 35 to 45 stitches, and in width from 11 to 28. 

This collection of four sundae patterns from Stichrovia would be fun to make for a kitchen or a teen’s room. Each pattern is around 40 by 50 stitches, so they should fit in a four or five inch hoop if worked on 14 count fabric. 

Or stitch up one of the treats from Stitch Chart Studio‘s collection of seven ice cream cross stitch patterns. These range in size and in number of colors needed, but most would fit in a five or six in hoop (and one in a four inch hoop).