Stephanie Burnham100 Beaded Jewelry Designs: Easy-to-bead Necklaces, Bracelets, Brooches, And More

This book is a strange combination of a beginners book and an intermediate book. Many of the designs are excessively simple and others expect you to not only know spiral peyote stitch but tells you to vary the stitch based on a pattern given earlier in the book. Not impossible but it could be daunting to a new beader. Out of the 100 designs I only bookmarked 13 pages of things I found interesting, but if you are new to beading there are quiet a few simple projects to try. There is also a pretty good 'basics' section at the back of the book with instructions on each stitch. It's a decent book, unfortunately I was looking for something a bit more challenging.

This jewelry design book is the perfect instructional book for making jewelry. It is not for the beginner, but does give detailed instructions for many jewelry designs such as the peyote stitch, weaving, netting and stitching pieces. There are 100 patterns that can be made into beautiful jewelry pieces.

I recieved the book yesterday. Alot of the designs and projects are relatively simple to make. I find that the same designs are repeated throughout the book. As with lariats, chokers, and simple strung neclaces. The instructions are vague, and many times are left up to the student to figure out. There are diagrams, but no threadpath to find out where to start or end. In many cases there is NO threadpath at all. There are better designs and instructions in bead magazines.I don't recommend this book, I am only an advanced beginner and bored with it, and disappointed!

This book is full of many colour illustrations of 100 different bead designs done with delicate seed beads. The instructions are minimal, assuming that you are a somewhat experienced beader, though a less experienced beader would also like it. The variety of designs are very inspiring.Unlike beading magazines, no annoying ads. I am glad to add this to my valuable beading manuals.

The photos, illustrations, and layout are beautiful, and at first flip through I found several pieces that I wanted to make, but when I began working on them I found the directions to be incredibly vague. This is not a good book for a beginner to learn from. I am generally very good at learning new skills from books, but the information just isn't there. I found I had to refer to other publications to figure out techniques and then guess at how to make the pieces shown here.

love the book but was badly damaged by water when I got it. It only cost a penny but I had to pay $4.00 for shipping so. not happy with the people who sold it to me. but it has a lot of great designs and they are easy for me a beginner so I got my moneys worth!

I enjoyed all the different patterns in this book. There are easy to complicated, to combinations therein instructions and patterns. The end of the book contains excellent instructions on the basic bead stitches, making this book an excellent desktop reference.

Creative ideas.

Great descriptions and some really lovely designs, I just wish I had more time to make!This is a lovely book with clear instructions and some fabulous designs

I am relatively new to the beading world and found this book very useful. The illustrations are great and instructions are easy to follow. I do like the variety of projects as well.

オフルームに関する洋書を随分買い求めましたが、本書はタイトル通り初心者向けです。巻末にペヨーテステッチ、ラダーステッチ、ネッティング等の基本ステッチのインストラクションや金具類の取り扱い方が載っていて、初心者には大変ありがたい内容になっています。掲載されている作品についてですが、表紙にあるような、シードビーズを主に使った繊細なものより、大きなオーナメントや、マザーオブパールでできた特殊な形の素材、アニマルプリントのビーズ等を使ったダイナミックなデザインのものが多いです。全く同じものを作ろうとすると大変かも・・・。色合いも全体的に少し強い感じがします。素材を変えて、アレンジすればきっと良い作品が出来ると思うのですが、この本のインストラクションに沿って、同じものを作りたい！という気持ちになれなかったので星３つとしました。でも説明は丁寧ですのでオフルーム初心者にはおすすめです。

英語の苦手な私でも何とか楽しく製作できました。オフルームの基本的な作品が多く、作図もわかりやすく、アレンジし易い作品集だと思います。色合いはイギリス人好みなのでしょうか？初めて洋書にトライするのにはちょうどいい本だと思います。