Has anyone made a tutorial before?

I am trying to put together a tutorial on gourdbeading but I seem to be having a problem figuring out how to go about it.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Jan

Sorry 'sweetie' not sure on how you want to go about it...for me, I did 2 'make and take day workshops' with step by step instructions and photo's...sat in for the day with everyone following instructions, showing me theirs, asking what questions needed answers and all ended up with gorgeous projects...

1st year we did Victorian Santa sleighs..

Here's some of the Victorian Santa's the girls completed....

Oh wow, those are beautiful. That must have been a wonderful class. There is a web site that I might give a try on the making of tutorials.
Thanks for sharing those santas. They are great.

The first thing I would do is gather all the materials and photograph them on a plain background like a white sheet. Take the picture from as short a distance away as possible so each tool and supply shows up easily.

Then, begin taking one shot per step. The steps can be as intricate as need be in order to show how each thing is done. You might need to have someone else take photos of your hands as you perform each step, or you can have someone "hand model" for you as you take the pictures. Get as close to the work with your camera as possible; you may want to use the macro setting depending on how close you are to the action.

Once your pictures are done, view them in order and write out, step-by-step, what it is you're doing in each photo. Write it in narrative form, instructing as you go.

Here are some sites which offer tutorials about everything under the sun. You can get ideas for how to organize and explain steps by looking at how others do:

http://instructables.com
http://ehow.com
http://crafttutorials.net/

Hope that helps! :)

Oh gardenwife, I love ya. That is great info and now I can get busy and put this thing together. You are a sweetheart. Thanks so much.
Jan

You're so welcome!

Wow, so do you glue the beads onto the gourds, as mosaics? Have you posted more of them online anywhere? That looks so cool. I think I saw some of your gourds in a thread, but I can't remember.

No, I push each bead, one at a time, into beeswax that I have applied and sculpted on the gourds. I use a tool that I make out of polymer clay and a T-pin.
The gourd in the picture took me 2 1/2 years to complete. Not a week end project. Hehe
This gourd is the one I am working on now. It is called Buffalo of the plains. It is about a 3 year project.
This is what I am going to be making the tutorial about. Bead gourds.

Here are a couple of pics of this gourd

Beeswax! Fantastic. That is beautiful. Had you applied this technique to other foundations in the past and decide one day to try it on a gourd, or did you start out doing them on gourds?

I started it on gourds. I had seen something like it only one dimentional by the Huichol Indians and decided to try it on one of my gourds that I had grown. This is the first one I did
It was an ocean theme. It was called Over and Under the Sea. The blue on top is turquoise chipes and that was the sky.

Oh, wow. I wish you lived closer - I'd love to photograph your work. What you do is amazing.

yes, I wish you did too. I had the African Gourd published in the Feb 2007 issue of Bead and Button and they want to publish the buffalo gourd when that is done.
I am not a great photographer but the photos that I sent them for the African gourd looked pretty proffesional.
Thanks for the kudos
jan