Introduction; Essential Ingredients; Tools & Useful Extras; Tips & Techniques; Beadwork Stitches for Beginners; The Projects: Cygnus Bauble, Perseus Bauble, Seraphim Angel, Vela Star, Brandy Pudding Baubles, Prague Bauble, Celestial Bauble, Monarch Bauble, Snow Queen Bauble, Narcissa Bauble, Holly Wreath Decoration, Wide Owl Bauble, Wenceslas Bauble; Christmas Earrings: Reindeer Earrings, Christmas Present Earrings, Christmas Stocking Earrings, Fir Tree Earrings; Index & Suppliers.
Julie Ashford is the owner and creative force behind the Spellbound Bead Co. Julie has been creating beaded designs, teaching and producing bead kits for many years. The company was founded 32 years ago and as well as specialising in retailing a huge range of beads and related products, Spellbound is best known for its fantastic range of in house designed kits and best selling beading books. She is the author of Spellbinding Beaded Jewellery, Spellbound Festive Beading; Spellbound Festive Beading Two; Spellbound Beaded Tassels and Starting to Make Bead Jewellery.
Let your Christmas tree really sparkle this year with the contents
of this book. Whatever your level of expertise, you can transform a
plain bauble into a glorious, sparkling creation, and make some fun
festive jewelry too.
I haven’t seen the first two books in this series, but was
certainly impressed with this one. A large format book in full
color, it’s filled with beautiful beaded baubles, and some of the
best, most foolproof instructions and diagrams you will find
anywhere. I can testify to this because I learnt beadwork by making
up kits produced by this company, and went from a total novice to
selling projects to magazines in the space of a few months. The
diagrams are in color, and there are plenty of them per project
covering every step with simple, easy to understand captions. There
are also plenty of large format photographs showing the finished
items, mostly in situ on the tree. Projects start simple, working
up to more advanced pieces. Before all that is a short section on
beads and tools, basic instructions for the various stitches, and
other useful information such as starting a new thread, dealing
with knots and finishing off. If your bauble is not exactly the
same size as the one used, there are ways of getting around this,
and everything in the book is available from Spellbound themselves,
making shopping easy. Not all the decorations are bauble based,
there are angels and stars, a beaded wreath, and some fun earrings
shaped like presents, stockings, fir trees and reindeer heads. The
baubles are decorated with snowflakes, butterflies, crowns (love
this one), stars, icicles and more, while two of them are
transformed into a Christmas pudding, and, my favorite, the owl.
All this is possible by working with only a few types of easily
available beads such as seed beads, fire polished faceted beads,
and bugle beads, as well as some of the new multi-holed varieties.
Pardon the pun, but this certainly had me spellbound, and is a
great way of learning offloom stitches for other applications, as
well as adding to the glory of your holiday décor.
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