Bead Embroidery: The Complete Guide

Features

• Cover Type: Spiral Bound with 256 pages
• Published by: Krause Publications; Spi edition December 23, 2005
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0873498887
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0873498883
• Book Dimensions: 7.7 x 6.2 x 1.3 inches
• Weighs: 1.5 pounds

Book Description
This comprehensive guide helps embroidery enthusiasts transform ordinary to extraordinary in a few easy steps! Bead Embroidery: The Complete Guide marries the popular crafts of embroidery and beading to create gorgeous specialties.

This portable and durable resource features twenty projects, complete with 200 color illustrations that use bead embroidery stitches with a variety of materials. The selection of quick and easy embellishments and intensive endeavors include adding fringe to a pillow, creating a zippered notions case, coin purse, Christmas ornament, sachet pillow and more. A reference guide covers all the stitches described in the book, and a gallery with work by other award-winning bead artists provides additional inspiration!

-200+ full-color photographs and step-by-step illustrations easily guide embroiderers through projects

-A collection of twenty projects provide embroiderers with a variety of gorgeous pieces

-Lay-flat spiral-bound format for easy use

Reader Reviews
I'm a great lover of beads, but I had never picked up an embroidery needle in my life. I really needed a book to tell me what was what, and this was it! This is a great book for beginners as all stitches and projects detailed are either easy or intermediate level. This is a spiral bound book tucked inside of a hard cover so it will lay flat for reference purposes but still sit nicely on your shelf. It is a pleasant compact size, great for tucking into a small bag or container to take on the go. All pictures and diagrams are in full color. The first 35 pages provide an "At a Glance" guide to 215 different needlepoint stitches, counted thread and crazy quilt stitches, freeform embroidery, smocking and ribbonwork stitches as well as various types of fringes. Each picture has a side by side showing the regular stitch and the stitch with beads! There is a short chapter that deals with tools and materials, followed by a lengthy section on how to perform each one of the above mentioned 215 stitches. There are detailed diagrams and instructions for each one. This is definitely the BEST part of the book and completely invaluable! The final (and weakest, in my opinion) section has a variety of projects to make with instructions and material lists for each. There is a short gallery of artists' beadwork which I personally did not find very inspiring, but gives you some new ideas all the same. At the end is a list of suppliers and other books to reference. I love this book on the whole! It's a fabulously put together reference guide and pleasantly presented. It will be indispensible for years to come! Comment | | (Report this)