Not Your Mama's Beading: The Cool and Creative Way to String 'Em Along (Not Your Mama's Craft Books)

259 Pages·2006·93.11 MB·English

by  Kate Shoup

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beading
not
your
mama’s
™
The cool and creative way to string ’em along
by Kate Shoup Welsh
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beading
not
your
mama’s
™
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beading
not
your
mama’s
™
The cool and creative way to string ’em along
by Kate Shoup Welsh
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For Jackie
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Contents
Introduction CHAPTER THREE
1
Bead It
PART ONE
The Anal-Retentive Beader: Preparing
Your Environment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Brushing Up on Beading
String ’Em Along: Basic Bead Stringing. . . . 33
The Stitchuation Room: Basic Beading
Stitches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
CHAPTER ONE
Wire Wire, Pants on Fire: Beading
Beads in Our Time with Wire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Next!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
The Fashion-Conscious Neanderthal . . . . . . . 7
Glass Warfare. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 PART TWO
Venice II Society. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Projects
Out of Africa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
East of Beadin’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
New World Beader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
CHAPTER FOUR
You’re So Money, Baby. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
We Got Spirits, Yes We Do!. . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Necklace Drivers
Lighten Up, It’s Just Fashion . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
And the Bead Goes On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Ribbon Campaign. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Next!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Financial Freedom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Showcase Showdown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Charm School. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
CHAPTER TWO
Baby You’re a Star. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
The Good Buy Girl
CHAPTER FIVE
We Got the Bead: Types of Beads. . . . . . . . . 16
Beauty Comes in All Shapes and Sizes. . . . . 19 Cuff Stuff
Materials Girl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Survival Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Doing Time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Next!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Security Anklet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
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No Way Crochet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 CHAPTER EIGHT
Doin’ the Button. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Gifts and Flair for Your
Tough Cuff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Pied a Terre
The Short and Winding Rope . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Spiked Punch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Know Your Place . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Tipple Rings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
CHAPTER SIX
Hit the Bottle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
With This Ring (and These Serviette Yourself. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Tacky Tacky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Earrings), I Thee Thread
Glass Ceiling Fan Pull . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Hoop Therapy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 The Collar Purple. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Girl with a Curl Earring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Gentle Beader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Swinging from the Chandeliers. . . . . . . . . . 132
Bling a Ding Ring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 PART THREE
Nesting Instinct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Additional Information
Bead the Ball. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Catch Your Own Bouquet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
APPENDIX A
CHAPTER SEVEN The Resourceful Beader
189
Ornamentation Nation
APPENDIX B
Hair Tactics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Best Laid Plans
Wifebeader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 197
Zip It. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Cuff Drops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 APPENDIX C
Handbagger Helper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Cheat Sheet
206
Call Me! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Girls Gone Bridaled. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
APPENDIX D
I Wish I Could Kit You
211
Designer Bios
214
Index
218
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