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High Strung: Glass Bead Mystery Series, Book 1

After inheriting a house in Seattle, Jax O’Connell is living the life of her dreams as a glass bead maker and jewelry designer. When she gets an offer to display her work during a bead shop’s opening festivities, it’s an opportunity Jax can’t resist – even though the store’s owner is the surliest person Jax has ever met. The weekend’s events become a tangled mess when a young bead maker is found dead nearby and several oddball bead enthusiasts are suspects. Jax must string together the clues to clear her friend Tessa’s name – and do it before the killer strikes again.

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Two Stitches: Jewelry Projects in Peyote & Right Angle Weave (Bead Inspirations)

Right angle weave and peyote: these are the two immensely popular stitches that beadweaving master Rachel Nelson-Smith turns into gorgeous bracelets, necklaces, and earrings. Meant for intermediate- to advanced-level beaders, and featuring detailed illustrations that illuminate Nelson-Smith’s construction, her 23 projects dazzle and inspire. Make a City Beads Bracelet, a rainbow-hued Voldekol Necklace, Nartri Earrings, and other jewelry.

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Glass Bead Workshop: Building Skills, Exploring Techniques, Finding Inspiration

Glass beadmaking has exploded in popularity—and those artists who have successfully mastered the basics want more techniques to enhance their repertoire. Jeri Warhaftig, a respected and experienced teacher, offers intermediates her time-tested, workshop-based approach to expanding their beadmaking skills. In each superbly illustrated and illuminating chapter, she focuses on using current tools, new materials, and innovative methodology to produce a singular bead—with several variations for every one. The possibilities, from sandblasting to metal inclusions, are stupendous: Craft sculptural flower beads; create a lightweight, hollow seashell-shaped bead; and go for the “wow” factor with geode beads that enclose decorative elements within a layer of glass. Helpful tips are sprinkled throughout, and a gallery of additional work will inspire.

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Seed Bead Chic: 25 Elegant Projects Inspired by Fine Jewelry (Lark Jewelry & Beading Bead Inspirations)

Upscale, elegant, CHIC: these 25 handcrafted projects look like the fine jewelry you’d find in high-end boutiques. But why splurge when all it takes to make them are some seed beads and intermediate-to-advanced skills? Featuring a variety of stitches—including the author’s newly created right-angle ladder stitch—these stunning pieces cover everything from earrings to brooches. Gorgeous photographs, diagrams, and helpful tips make the beading process simple and pleasurable!

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Dallas Lovett’s Woven Bead & Wire Jewelry: 25 Gorgeous Projects (Lark Jewelry & Beading Bead Inspirations)

Dallas Lovett’s elegant-yet-graceful project designs capture the look crafters want now—sophisticated and stunning. He presents 25 of his most unique designs, all luxurious, with layered twists, and showcasing the creative potential of silver wire and beads. A basics section covers every technique in the book, and step-by-step photos provide the guidance crafters need to create these magnificent pieces, from the undulating, geometrical Cleopatra necklace to the shimmering Crown Jewels Pendant.

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Break the Rules Bead Embroidery: 22 Jewelry Projects Featuring Innovative Materials (Bead Inspirations)

Just about anything is fodder for Diane Hyde’s eclectic, multilayered jewelry: found objects, quirky oddities, old images, and vintage materials. Beaders will love exploring her whimsical style and learning how they too can create beautiful pieces from seemingly ordinary, everyday things. Diane reveals her special, accessible techniques for working with these items, and presents 22 fanciful, fun projects, including a pendant with a wine cork affixed to a Pierrot doll head and embellished with bicone crystal beads; clever Light It Up Earrings, with mini lightbulbs haloed with floral-shaped beads; and figurines, necklaces, bracelets, and more! 

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Sabine Lippert’s Beadwork Evolution: New Techniques Using Peyote Stitch and Right Angle Weave (Lark Jewelry & Beading Bead Inspirations)

Sabine Lippert’s unique, sophisticated jewelry designs have won her legions of fans worldwide. Now she has created a collection that not only includes 25 gorgeous projects, but also provides breathtaking variations on popular stitches to build beaders’ skills. From a Peyote-stitched Crocodile Bracelet to right-angle-woven Marrakech Earrings to the embellished shapes of a Helena Ring, Lippert’s savvy techniques take beading to a whole new level!

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Shaped Beadwork & Beyond: Dimensional Jewelry in Peyote Stitch (Lark Jewelry & Beading Bead Inspirations)

Diane Fitzgerald is the world’s biggest and best-loved name in beading—and now she’s back with a new book that will “shape” your jewelry-making for years to come! Focusing on geometric figures formed into three-dimensional beaded pieces, this gorgeous follow-up to her bestselling Diane Fitzgerald’s Shaped Beadwork builds on Diane’s earlier ideas with 40 stunning projects. In each chapter, Diane explores a different shape—from starry necklaces and heart pins to a Pirate Eyes Bracelet—and she goes in exciting new directions with imaginative and beautifully complex designs that play with patterns, crystals, and more.

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Marcia DeCoster’s Beads in Motion: 24 Jewelry Projects that Spin, Sway, Swing, and Slide (Lark Jewelry & Beading Bead Inspirations)

Beaders will rejoice in this long-awaited new collection from world-famous teacher and designer Marcia DeCoster. DeCoster has devised 24 stunning beadwoven jewelry projects that showcase dynamism and movement—from a simple drop that swings from chains to elaborate pieces with intricate components that spin around a core of beads or along a beaded base. They’re playful, delightful, and inspirational!