5 Responses to “100 Beaded Jewelry Designs: Easy-to-Bead Necklaces, Bracelets, Brooches, and More”
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Ms. A. Rumsby says:
Review by Ms. A. Rumsby for 100 Beaded Jewelry Designs: Easy-to-Bead Necklaces, Bracelets, Brooches, and More
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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.
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Ann says:
Review by Ann for 100 Beaded Jewelry Designs: Easy-to-Bead Necklaces, Bracelets, Brooches, and More
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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. -
Eve says:
Review by Eve for 100 Beaded Jewelry Designs: Easy-to-Bead Necklaces, Bracelets, Brooches, and More
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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! -
A. J. Watt says:
Review by A. J. Watt for 100 Beaded Jewelry Designs: Easy-to-Bead Necklaces, Bracelets, Brooches, and More
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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. -
sbanks says:
Review by sbanks for 100 Beaded Jewelry Designs: Easy-to-Bead Necklaces, Bracelets, Brooches, and More
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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.
100 Beaded Jewelry Designs: Easy-to-Bead Necklaces, Bracelets, Brooches, and More
October 21st, 2010 . 5 Comments »More is better in this hefty collection of adornments for all occasions. One hundred projects are organized by season for ease of selection, whether it’s the season for a summery Daisy Chain or Petal Rope necklace or the weather for an autumnal Fringed Pendant or Pearl Lozenge necklace. Also included are up-to-the-minute earring designs, sophisticated chokers, and the newest trends in brooches. Designs draw from a huge variety of materials, from tiny seed beads to stunning focal beads made from
100 Beaded Jewelry Designs: Easy-to-Bead Necklaces, Bracelets, Brooches, and More
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