Shea lives in the beautiful Province of British Columbia where my Native Grandmother was born and raised. She is learning by doing, and has created some lovely loom beading patterns, and pattern modifications. She is doing what I hope you all will do, take the free beading patterns on this site only as suggestions.

Shea says she always redraws the patterns on a grid to get to know the design, and to add her personal  touches and colour changes. Visitors to the older site may recognize this Running Horses pattern, which Shea has modified to be a continuous pattern for the back of a jean jacket for her "guy" - he chose the colours, Shea added the extra horse.  If you'd like a copy of Shea's design click here.

Inspired by Shea's work, I have played with Shea's design modifications, and created a third version with ends to her design, both ends with the black horse showing (first and last) that you can use if you do a belt or something longer, that pattern is added here.

The sunny orange pattern below is Shea's first original design, and her first ever beading project - a hat band.  It was important to her to do her own design first.  She didn't look anything up, just drew a grid, grabbed her pencil crayons, and started playing around. I think it is wonderful!! Thank you, Shea for sharing your  creative spirit with us.