A comprehensive beginners guide to making beautiful bead jewelry featuring professional tips and techniques plus more than one hundredeasy and stylish projects!
Bead Basics 101 is an all-purpose sourcebook that covers every aspect of beading. A terrific beginner's resource, it explains the materials, tools, and techniques you'll need for making dangles, earrings, bracelets, watches, necklaces, and more. Plus step-by-step photos and clear instructions take the mystery out of the process.
Bead artists Donna Goss and Andrea Gibson welcome readers to this endlessly creative craft as they explain the intricacies of earrings, the wonders of wire, and the dazzle of crystals. Explore the joys of mixing colors, using focal beads to your greatest advantage, creating unique accents, stringing multiple strands with confidence, and more.
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Suzanne McNeill is often known as a Trendsetter for arts and crafts. Dedicated to hands-on creativity, she constantly tests, experiments and invents something new and exciting. Suzanne is the woman behind Design Originals, a publishing company dedicated to all things fun and creative. She is a designer, artist, columnist, TV personality, publisher, art instructor, author and lover of everything hands-on. She was the 211 winner of the Craft and Hobby Association's Industry Achievement Award.