I have always loved beads and the endless variety of shapes, sizes and colours they come in. During the years that I was lucky enough to travel the world, I collected as many beads (semi-precious, stone, glass, or metal) that I could fit into my luggage…never once did I consider how glass beads came into being.
One day, while searching the Internet for information on making polymer clay beads, I discovered that people actually had the equipment to make glass beads in a domestic setting, often in their garden sheds…so that set me off on a mission to make glass beads myself. That dream took almost six years to fulfil, requiring one international house move and another within the UK.
Eventually I took a glass bead making class with Diana East, and when I finally had the money, and space, I ordered my own equipment. I have been making beads off and on now since October 2007.

In early 2015, when it was far too cold to be in the shed, I began collecting cashmere and pure wool knitwear from various sources, washed it in environmentally friendly products until it was slightly fulled, (or 'felted') and made soft sculpture cats with it. That project was interrupted by a planned temporary move to Glasgow, followed by buying a house in Glasgow, but this last move is permanent, thank goodness! I'm hoping that I will feel settled enough to start making knitwear cats again in the near future, it's been a hectic couple of years and I'm impatient to be back in a making frame of mind, but I am finding it harder to start up again than usual.

Meanwhile, Etsy is a big place - thank you for stopping by,
Min
www.applegreenmachine.co.uk