Cleaning up to move back home – my parents are doing much better Thank You…and I found this!
Jill Wiseman’s Beautiful Beaded Ropes: 24 Wearable Jewelry Projects in Multiple Stitches
by Jill Wiseman
Join popular teacher and designer Jill Wiseman as she presents 24 beaded rope designs in this wonderful entry in Lark Jewelry & Beading’s popular Beadweaving Master Class series. From dainty to heavy, and from simple to outrageously textured, these beautiful and wearable necklace, lariat, bangle, and bracelet projects (plus a few earrings!) utilize such popular stitch techniques as spiral rope, peyote, netting, herringbone, right angle weave, chevron, polygon weave, and oglala.
Beginning and experienced beaders alike will love these high-quality projects from one of the most fun and innovative beaders on the scene today!
Thought I would check it out and add it to the stack of books for the giveaway!!!
The most important thing to remember is that these are all part of the Beadweaving Masters Class Series from Lark Books. What that means is that this isn’t the Big Book of Beginning Ropes – you have to have your basics down.
With that in mind Lark provides a great refresher chapter that walks you through all the stitches used in these projects. Then it dives right into the deep-end! The first patterns are Spiral Ropes…I tried a couple and the directions are clear enough that a persistent beginner could grasp the ideas – that is not to say that the project would be wearable.
But I am going to try a couple of these ropes because I was inspired to forge some endcaps and clasps while perusing my copy (Thanks Lark Books).
Want an idea of what to expect? Lark offered 2 Free projects on their blog – you DO follow their blog RIGHT? Here is the link: http://www.larkcrafts.com/jewelry-beading/jill-wiseman-beading/
This would be a great gift for the Beader in your life this Holiday Season….
Robyn Hawk
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