Quick & Easy Beaded Jewelry (Beadwork Books) (Paperback)

by Elizabeth Gourley (Author), Ellen Talbott (Author)

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Product Description
Making stylish beaded jewelry is fun, fast, and easy!

Beaders, crafters, needle workers, and jewelry makers of all skill levels now have a resource for making elegant, beautiful, matching sets of jewelry quickly and easily. Authors Elizabeth Gourley and Ellen Talbott teach basic beading techniques such as stranding, peyote stitching, and netting and then guide readers, with detailed directions and lavish photography, through 30 projects for creating necklaces, bracelets, earrings, and rings.

Elizabeth and Ellen have been beading for 15 years. This is their second book.

• More than 30 projects for making fashionable beaded jewelry sets

• Detailed directions, lavish photography, and illustrations expertly guide readers to beading success

• Suitable for all skill levels

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Krause Publications (June 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 087349377X
• ISBN-13: 978-0873493772
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #596,467 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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75 of 75 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy enough for beginners, and pretty, too, October 12, 2002

By	S. Brand "sandra807" (United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The cover of this book shows a good sampling of the pretty projects you'll find inside. The book starts with a short section showing photos of tools, threads, and findings typically used in jewelry-making. It's followed by a very good section showing basic jewelry-making techniques, including one of the best diagrams I've ever seen for making wire-wrapped loops, a simple but basic requirement for general jewelry work. Other techniques include using different stitches to join seed beads for the projects in the book.

The projects give the beginning jewelry maker a good introduction to many different techniques and styles of jewelry, some very simple with basic stringing of beads to more time-consuming, though not too difficult, sewing and netting of seed bead necklaces. A cute, simple new style includes beads knotted onto ribbon, and there's an attractive wire-worked necklace.

Though I think the instructions are good for beginners, this is great for experienced beaders also, because there are ideas I haven't seen in other beading books for design, bead combinations, and even techniques. Something new for me was a necklace of wire-wrapped bead sections linked together with lots of jump rings to form a netted design. I am also inspired by her grapevine necklace, the lemon bead necklace, and a beautiful blue right-angle weave choker. The only necklace that makes me say, "hmm", is a necklace incorporating a child's baby teeth; I need to think about that one.

56 of 56 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Quick & Easy -- and lovely!, April 4, 2003

By	Christine Saalbach (San Antonio TX) - See all my reviews

The title says it. The projects are fairly simple and the authors have some pretty clever ideas. Tools, thread, wire, findings needed are a standard beginning for a how-to book like this. Usually relegated to an appendix are jewelry standards, such as beads per inch, but here they precede bead stringing, knotting and weaving. How to make and use jump rings rates a special mention. Most jewelry-making books neglect the handy jump ring. Pressed for time to make a quick jewelry gift? Yes, check out this book.

64 of 65 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great jewelry ideas, October 15, 2002

By A Customer

I have bought many beading books and have been disappointed in many, but this book in no way disappoints. It offers the same information for beginners on findings and needed supplies that the other books do but has an easier to follow format. All (yes, all ..no duds in this book)of the projects are actually jewelry pieces that I would like to make and own or that can be easly altered to better suit the jewelry maker.