Getting Started with Seed Beads (Getting Started series)

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 128 pages
• Published by: Interweave Press May 28, 2007
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1596680164
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1596680166
• Book Dimensions: 8.1 x 8.1 x 0.9 inches
• Weighs: 1.3 pounds

Product Review
"Beginning and more advanced beaders will find helpful instruction. . . . [The book] will find good use in public library collections."  —Library Journal



"A beginner-friendly romp through the ways and wonders of seed beads . . . Interesting projects for experienced beaders to play with too!"  —Bead-Patterns the Magazine



"A must-have."  —The Detroit News



"The projects are fun, the directions easy to follow, and the materials list provided make for stress-free shopping trips."  —Monsters and Critics.com



Product Description
Seed beads are basic, essential materials in a beader’s stash, and this handbook gives beginning crafters a full course in how to work with them for great results. Seed beads come in a plethora of colors and materials and can be worked in an endless variety of stitches, which are taught in chapters that progress from introductory to more challenging. The more than twenty projects teach and then combine techniques in projects guaranteed to impress—from a simple beaded tin to a ladder ring to a tubular peyote-stitch rope of beaded beads. There is also a section on shopping for beads and equipment that will make new initiates comfortable as they explore the potentials of beading with seed beads. Filled with information and inspiration, this clear guide is a catalog of colorful and creative possibility.

Reader Reviews
I have just started seed beading. It's a new thing for me, although I understand how to make other kinds of jewelry. Frankly, I don't even think it matters if I did know how to make ANY other sort of jewelry with this sleekly written, brightly photographed, appealing book by one of the most well-known seed beaders in the community, Dustin Wedekind. I have admired many of his projects in Beadwork Magazine for years. Admittedly, in Getting Started with Seed Beads, you don't get the incredibly elaborate and intricately beaded work which the author creates on a regular basis elsewhere--all those fabulous and magnificent pieces-- here, in this book. That is intentional, however: this book is to help YOU get started. You get every type of basic stitch which you might want to try, in a cheerful and colorful layout, with no fuss and no messy photos. It is easy to get confused when you are first learning to seed bead (Take it from me, first hand!). Staring at big piles of beads all over the place clogging up the photos on book pages makes it worse. Thank heavens this book takes pity upon us and leaves the pages clean and clear and appealing. The projects looks good and the colors are brilliant and charming. The early projects in the book which I liked were the glue projects, where you decorate tin boxes wth beads, an enchanting paisley pin, something lacy called a Green Diamond Ribonette which has lots of uses--bracelet, lariat, or belt, Belted Bricky Balls which look more challenging than most of the projects but pretty enough to be worth trying, and the great Twisted Cable Bracelets at the end of the book-I already know the basic stich for that one--hooray! I am glad Dustin explained the many types of beads at the beginning and how to use sequins as well. I feel much more comfortable with the whole concept of seed beading as a whole. This is a very worthwhile book which I have enjoyed reading, will use and refer to, and I am glad I bought! Comment | | (Report this)