Beading Magazines For Beginners
Posted on Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 at 8:41 am
Where can I get ideas and tips for making stylish fashionable bead bracelets?
I love wearing beaded bracelets!! I’m tired of buying them in the stores and I think it would be a fun hobby to make and design them myself to wear and to give as gifts. Who knows, maybe I will sell them someday too.
Anyway, does anybody else out there make their own bracelets? Do you know of and good websites, books, magazines where I can get some ideas? Where can I get a lot of cheap beads that are very trendy and stylish?
What supplies do I need to start with?
Any tips or advice for a beginner?
http://www.readytobead.com/
They also offer kits, as well as gifting you when you buy, so you can make the entire bracelet from what is in the kit. Saves beginners lots of ‘what do I buy?’ questions. They also list what tools are necessary for each project.
You can also try http://beadwork.about.com/od/patternsfromatoz/index_a.htm for free jewelry patterns, and tutorials.
► How To Make Paper Beads – Craft Tutorial 6
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Teach Yourself VISUALLY Jewelry Making and Beading (Teach Yourself VISUALLY Consumer) $11.09 wiley publishing jewelry making beading. each skill or technique is defined and described. features detailed color photos that demonstrate each step and helpful tips that provide additional guidance. you will learn to craft designs that are chic but inexpensive. covers tools and supplies bead stringing and weaving wire wrapping and more concise two page lessons show you all the steps to a skill an… |
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Dimensional Bead Embroidery: A Reference Guide to Techniques (Lark Jewelry & Beading) $12.94 This guidebook shows beaders how to use old stitches in new ways. Focusing especially on cabochons and large, eye-catching focal beads, the book covers decorative stitches such as fringes, picots and rope edging. Nine illustrated projects include bracelets, necklaces and earrings…. |
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Stitch Workshop: Peyote Stitch: Basic Techniques, Advanced Results $10.96 This book is the first in our Stitch Workshop series. This book will concentrate solely on peyote stitch, explaining the basics of that stitch in detail and supplying plenty of projects for beaders to practice with. With 28 peyote stitch projects organized from beginner to advanced, this book has a wide audience for those who are just learning the stitch and those who are looking for more proj… |