Not Your Mama's Beading: The Cool and Creative Way to String 'em Along - Paperback

by Kate Shoup (Author)

This beading book offers projects that are chic, unique, and absolutely wearable. With more than thirty super-cool designs, it covers essential tools and materials, must-know beading techniques, and ideas for personalizing every project. You'll whip up designs with pizzazz to adorn your apartment, your friends, or yourself With a sassy attitude, hip projects, and color photos, this will bring out your inner diva.

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We go where no beading book has gone before and offer up projects that are absolutely wearable and that your brown-nosing cube-mate can only covet. If, like any self-respecting do-it-yourself gal, you still have a secret but slavish devotion to personal adornment, look no further. Choose one of more than thirty super-cool designs, get the basics, and whip up something you can't find in even the most exclusive Rodeo Drive boutiques.

Here's what you'll get: The tools and materials that no beader should bead withoutThe must-know basic beading techniques, including stringing, stitching, knotting, and wireworkDesigns ranging from ridiculously simple to sublimely complex for adorning your apartment, your friends, and yourselfSuggestions for customizing every design and personalizing every project

With a sassy attitude, fun designs, hip projects, and color photos of every design, "Not Your Mama's Beading" will bring out your inner diva.

Author Biography

Kate Shoup Welsh, devoted blinger and beader, has written or co-written several books including "The Agassi Story," and is currently penning "Not Your Mama's Stitching." She has also co-written a screenplay and worked as a sports editor.