Cube Bead Stitching: Contemporary Jewelry Designs You Can Make [Paperback]

Virginia Jensen (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 13, 2009

Making jewelry with cube beads requires no special training or classes. This book explains it all. With clear instructions and hundreds of color photographs, expert Virginia Jensen shows how to make stunning jewelry using many of the most popular off-loom stitches. Chapters are divided by project type, including bracelets, earrings, necklaces, rings, and decorative items. Beginners learn the fundamentals of many popular stitches as they create the projects, while more experienced crafters enjoy the challenge of weaving an uncommon shape into a knockout piece.

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About the Author

Virginia Jensen is a designer and teacher of bead weaving from Grand Junction, Colo. After a full career in advertising and publishing that included awards for her graphic design, she now focuses on creating wearable jewelry with a trained eye for proportion, color palette, and pattern. Virginia’s beaded designs have appeared in many leading beading publications, including Bead&Button magazine. Virginia is co-founder of her area’s Art Jewelers Guild and shares her talents for beadwork through her Web site, virjenmettle.com.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Kalmbach Books (October 13, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0871162814
• ISBN-13: 978-0871162816
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.2 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #206,373 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great for all levels of beading, October 22, 2009

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M. Poller (Israel) - See all my reviews
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What a pleasant surprise to receive this book! I had to go immediately and buy the 1.5mm small cube beads from Toho which are used here. All the main stitches are explained, but the author says she prefers the St. Petersburg stitch with this bead and she has lots of variations some of her own. There are necklaces, bracelets, rings, pendants, and earrings. The explanations are very good and the author writes well and in a very friendly way which I like. She says the book is geared to beginners to intermediate beaders and that sounds about right but it's also good for anyone wanting to use these particular beads as a jumping off point for exploration. The book seems well produced with good photos and also an index. Recommended.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Cubes!, November 7, 2009

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Lots of ideas to make or build from using cubes to make jewelry. The directions are clear and the projects varied. Good photos and basic information about sizes and shapes that cubes come in.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good and entertaining projects, November 16, 2009

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Emma V. Rodriguez Montes "Emyrodmont" (Puerto Rico) - See all my reviews
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Beautiful and interesting projects, the only thing is that the cubes 1.5 and 1.8 (almost all the projects are made with that cube size) are hard to find...