Customer Reviews

100 Beaded Jewelry Designs

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This is a lovely book full of gorgeous designs. The directions are straightforward and easy enough for beginners to be able to follow. For the more experienced beaders, there are suggestions on how to adapt the designs.

It's had me looking through my bead stash for beads that I've owned for a while but not yet found the right setting for - some of her designs have given me that "a-ha!" feeling.

I would thoroughly recommend this book to any beader.

The photos, illustrations, and layout are beautiful, and at first flip through I found several pieces that I wanted to make, but when I began working on them I found the directions to be incredibly vague. This is not a good book for a beginner to learn from. I am generally very good at learning new skills from books, but the information just isn't there. I found I had to refer to other publications to figure out techniques and then guess at how to make the pieces shown here.

I recieved the book yesterday. Alot of the designs and projects are relatively simple to make. I find that the same designs are repeated throughout the book. As with lariats, chokers, and simple strung neclaces. The instructions are vague, and many times are left up to the student to figure out. There are diagrams, but no threadpath to find out where to start or end. In many cases there is NO threadpath at all. There are better designs and instructions in bead magazines.
I don't recommend this book, I am only an advanced beginner and bored with it, and disappointed!

This book has both it's high and low points. I've enjoyed looking at the different necklace designs and the 'basic skills' section has been very helpful. However, I've found that some of the instructions are vague or otherwise less than helpful. If you have an intuitive sense of what you're doing (or are willing to experiment) that's fine, but otherwise things can get a little confusing.

This book's biggest weakness is it's lack of thread paths, but I suspect that in quite a few cases they could be figured out without a lot of trouble. The projects and color combinations are really not the prettiest I've seen, but ideally you want to learn something new, not just be entertained,even though I like that myself, I have my fair share of beading books at home!There is a decent tutorial at the back of the book on basic stitches used to make jewellery and maybe the author's intention was for us to refer to these as well. For $16. it's not a bad buy at all. It's hard to find something really unique out there these days, in terms of beaded jewellery and books, it seems to me it's all been done.For Beginner to Intermediate bead jewellers.

The book is definatly a case of quantity, not quality. The book had nice pictures, but the directions were impossible to follow. They are incredibly vague, and the author doesnt even tell you what part of the necklace you nare making. The author would of been a lot better off only putting half of the projects in the book, and writing more detailed, step by step instructions. Even if I could follow the instructions, I probably wouldnt of made any of the projects anyway. They are all very old fashioned and just not wearable. The colour scemes on some of the necklaces, such as the dichroic triangle are awfull. I suppose this book would be more sutable for the older, more experienced beader

I too believe that the instructions are vague but the pictures are nice. One star for effort and one for the pictures. I also think that all the designs are for old ladies. Yuck, wouldn't recommend this book to anyone. Well, unless I didn't like them.

With just a little bit more time and making the publisher PAY ATTENTION, books like this would be MUCH better. The vague directions that lead no where, are a real disappointment.

I do not need to write a huge story on how badly this book was put together. BE SMART! go to the library or Book Store and look before you order here. Cheaper prices do not make a bad book better.

While I agree that these are not "step-by-step" instructions with tons of in-depth photos, I still believe there is a lot of value in this book. If you have any experience with beading, the material provided will have you making most of the items with ease and plowing through your stash of beads rapidly. Something for everyone here, and the materials are not hard to find if you don't already have them on hand. Basic stitches are covered at the back of the book with good photos to guide you. Recommended for those who need some inspiration and can't wait to get going, maybe not for beginning beaders just starting out.

Being a new member I didn't know what kind or condition the books I ordered would be in.
The Books were brand new, wonderful patterns, and great instructions. The prices on these
books were great also. I will definately be ordering more books.

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