Beaded Garden

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2005
$17.06

Here's an exciting exploration of the craft of making flowers with tiny glass beads and thread, weaving these elements together with off-loom stitches to create three-dimensional flowers, leaves and garden creatures. Beaders and gardeners alike will delight in these projects that use brick, peyote, net and herringbone stitches, as well as right-angle weave and combination stitches. Step-by-step instructions, stunning photographs and easy-to-follow diagrams guide you through simple to more advanced projects, and the colorful gallery of pieces from well-known bead artists is sure to give you a year-round case of spring fever.

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Here's an exciting exploration of the craft of making flowers with tiny glass beads and thread, weaving these elements together with off-loom stitches to create three-dimensional flowers, leaves and garden creatures. Beaders and gardeners alike will delight in these projects that use brick, peyote, net and herringbone stitches, as well as right-angle weave and combination stitches. Step-by-step instructions, stunning photographs and easy-to-follow diagrams guide you through simple to more advanced projects, and the colorful gallery of pieces from well-known bead artists is sure to give you a year-round case of spring fever.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
Publisher: Interweave
Published: 19 Jul 2005
ISBN 10: 1931499551
ISBN 13: 9781931499552

Media Reviews

Newsletter 63, Summer 06

Inspiration galore for lovers of flowers and garden creatures who wish to recreate them in beadwork.

Basic instructions and beading techniques to guide you through the construction of large or small projects, and how to work pieces into jewellery and accessories.

Something new to try.

* West Country Embroiderers *

Author Bio

Diane Fitzgerald is an internationally known bead artist, writer, and teacher whose like is enriched with the pursuit and enjoyment of tiny, but enchanting glass beads. Beadwork has brought her a wealth of friends, enticed her to travel to far corners of the world, and stimulated her creativity, to say nothing of providing her livelihood. I've tried other forms of fibre art such as quilting and needlework, but none has brought me the satisfaction and pleasure of beads. There would be a gaping hole in my life without them. Fitzgerald is the author of five other books: 'Beads and Threads: A New Technique for Fibre Jewellery', written with Helen Banes, 'Counted and Charted Patterns for Flat Peyote Stitch', 'Sea Anemone Beadwork', 'Zulu Beaded Chain Techniques', and 'More Zulu Beadwork'. She is continually creating new designs for beadwork jewelry that she uses for teaching at her shop, Beautiful Beads, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and at other bead stores, conferences, and trade shows accross the country.