FINALLY!! Mastering the Spiral

I DID IT!

For about 10 years I have been trying to learn how to do a spiral stitch in beadwork. Every tutorial left me weeping or breaking things. Every attempt left me with a mangled mess.

I am severely dysgraphic-- a form of dyslexia that is more challenging with math and graphs than written text. I am fine left to right on a horizon. I'm not too bad vertically. Go diagonal on me and I'm a bit nervous, but ok.

Switch it up and I actually feel a migraine and a very real sense of discomfort-- sometimes even panic. Math problems that reversed direction or moved numbers or letters in any way on the page always left me needing an ice pack and confounded me for many years. I managed to pass basic Math in college thanks to a brilliant teacher named Tom Moore but I never did master modern algebra more than passably.

Anyway... Mary Springwell, who is a genius and one of the people I love most in the world, taught me the spiral by making the instructions idiot-proof. With her permission we have put up a link to those instructions on the Mystic Beadwork page. You, too, can survive SPIRAL:

SPIRAL TUTORIAL