When do you stop calling yourself "Beginner?"

 What a interesting question!!!!!!

I concider myself as a trainee, because I'haven't stopp learning now. :)

I'm a straight stringer, I hope I put it right. I haven't done wirework  or chain maille jet

But anyway I don't have to much time to bead right now :( So the learning process will stretch :)

Now this is an interesting question. I can't remember when I stopped thinking of myself as a beginner.  I remember when my husband and I lived in our second apartment in 2000-2001, that was when I took up off-loom weaving seriously.  I spent hours and hours  beading, learning how to read graphs and charts, and learning about seed beads, threads and needles.  I took weekly classes at a bead store about 50 miles from where I lived, and once I got involved with the community of beaders in that area, I think that was when I stopped thinking of myself as a beginner - I think because I finally had someone else to compare myself to, LOL!  Does that make sense?

That said, I taught a couple of classes this summer around my area.  For one class, I stated in the class description that the class was for intermediate to advanced beaders who were familiar with brick and peyote stitch.  When I actually got to teach the class, it turned out that half of the students enrolled had never done brick stitch before, and the other half had only done a handful of peyote projects.  They obviously thought of themselves as "advanced", yet they didn't have the skills needed to complete the project.  So I think classifying oneself is a highly subjective process!

Does any of that make sense?  LOL!

-Jen

I consider it a per technique thing. It depends to me, on how many times i've done the technique.. How comfortable I am with it.. Could I teach it? There's a few stitches I do feel comfortable enough to teach.. and I would feel quite comfortable with some.. I suppose in those I don't consider myself a beginner.. But the ones I haven't perfected yet.. I consider myself beginner still.

Krista