I enjoy both knitting and crochet, but my current passion is beaded knitting. I love using beads for colour work in my beaded cuffs. I use pre-strung bead placement technique which I learned when I first came across Latvian beaded cuffs, or mauči, at a local arts and crafts fair in the summer 2017. And ever since then different mauci designs have been stacking up in my mind. I find the beaded designs to be similar to pixel art, where every bead is a pixel. The challenge is to find the right amount of bead pixels to represent an image or a motif within the small space of a cuff.

I have also started publishing video tutorials for making beaded cuffs. Subscribe to my YouTube channel GZ Designsl if you want to learn more about beaded knitting!