Carole Rodgers

Beyond Beading Basics

by Carole Rodgers

Softcover

Ready to move beyond beading basics? Then, this innovative guide to jewelry design by Carole Rodgers (of Beading Basics fame—a Club favorite!) is for you. The book won’t be available in stores until January 2010, but you don’t have to wait until then to: • Try a fresh twist on popular hand-weaving stitches, including but certainly not limited to the peyote stitch, daisy chain, right-angle stitch, spiral ropes, vertical netting and square stitch. You’ll even learn new ways to combine these stitches to create the kind of jewelry pieces you’ll love to wear. • Get inspired to use findings in unexpected—and unexpectedly stylish—new ways. Who knew a necklace fashioned out of four-hole connectors could look so good? • For that matter, who knew objects other than beads could make such gorgeous pieces? Rodgers sure knows how to think outside the bead box when it comes to putting found objects such as old game pieces, buttons and shells to beautful new use. More than 25 super-imaginative jewelry projects will teach you 25 beautiful advanced techniques, from more complicated stringing methods to embroidering with beads to working with multi-hole beads for exciting new looks.