Customer Reviews

Beaded Treasure Purses: Tubular Brick Stitch Designs

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This book has a lot to teach you on the basics. And it is done very well. This is a great beginners book, with lots of easy to follow graphs and instructions. The simple bags work up nicly. I feel you will not be disapointed with this book.

I love making amulet bags and couldn't wait to get my hands on this little book. Being a brick stitch addict made the wait even harder. I can't begin to tell you how disappointed I was when I received it.

While the individual projects are beautiful, the instructions left much to be desired for this beginning beader. Instead of having clear instructions and photos with each project, the author bunches basic instructions up at the beginning of the book. What is given is very clear, but there is a LOT left out. I am given the impression the author assumes you know how to do everything else.

The black and white photos of the projects are named but not numbered, and they aren't in any particular order I could figure out. The center of the book has numbered, colored pictures of each finished project, but not the pages where they can be found. A small thing, but it would have been useful.

Each project page itself has very little, if any, instruction beyond a pattern chart, materials, and bead chart. The accompanying photo is black and white, which isn't any help with bead color.

I hate to be so negative about the hard work the author obviously put into the projects in this book. I would rather she included more instruction and eliminated the black and white photos. The bags and few jewerly pieces are enticing, I'm just not to the point where I know all I should to make them.

This is one book I'll put aside until I learn more about making fringes and other small details which I couldn't pick up from here.

Provides many hours of relaxation doing my beading and gave me ideas for other designs in making peyote bags.

I found this book to be especially useful in making pouches and bags with seed beads. Thank you very much.