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Wire Style

From the editor of Step by Step Wire Jewelry magazine. Wire Style is a collection of fifty contemporary, stylish, and absolutely wearable designs. The book will begin with a chapter on wire jewelry tools and basic techniques and then feature 50 captivating and never before published wire jewelry projects with complete materials lists and written instructions.

Elements of Style

Using easy to find materials, clever techniques and unique design ideas, you can create fabulous jewelry in no time. Features 17 projects for all skill levels using wire, fiber, felt and beads and offers a variety of techniques including knitting, crochet, needle-felting, and more.

Fabulous Fabric Beads

For the first time, the creator of Sassy Silkies shares the secrets of making her unique beads with stamps, paint, fabric, and other craft materials—and how to create amazing jewelry with them. Make one-of-a-kind beads from silk, muslin, or hand-dyed ribbon embellished with crystals, fiber, glitter, wire, and more for show-stopping bijoux. Fabulous Fabric Beads combines beading, scrapbooking, quilting, fiber arts, and mixed-media techniques to create lightweight beads made from rolled tubes of silk fabric and painted or embellished with stamps and other materials.

Create Jewelry – Stones

Stones are a favorite design element in the jewelry designer’s toolbox. The editor of Beadwork magazine and former editor of Stringing magazine take jewelry design to the next level with 23 step-by-step projects for stone bead necklaces, bracelets, and earrings.

Following in the footsteps of the author’s other two best sellers, Create Jewelry:Pearls and Create Jewelry: Crystals, Create Jewelry: Stones presents 23 stunning designs, all incorporating various gemstone beads.

Making Connections

Susan Lenart Kazmer has pioneered the use of found objects in jewelry making and has developed a bounty of ingenious cold connections using staples, rivets, fibers, resins and other material. Embellished with stunning photos and dozens of original joining techniques, this book solves many of the problems encountered when connecting delicate mixed media to metals.

Beads, Baubles and Jewels on DVD

Learn the answers to all of your beading questions. In this season we’ve assembled a team of experts to instruct you on basic beading techniques and to give you great ideas for beautiful and exotic pieces that only look difficult to create. Discover your personal style and how to incorporate what you see around you into your jewelry designs. Over 5 hours of instruction and inspirations and hundreds of project ideas.