In our Bead Stitching Basics Technique Series video, instructors Addie Kidd, Anna Draeger, and Linda Augsburg show you the basics of bead stitching, then demonstrate five different stitches: ladder, brick, Ndebele/herringbone, square, and right-angle weave.
Learn how to:
• Use a stop bead, condition thread, and end your working thread and add a new thread
• Tie surgeon's, half-hitch, square, and overhand knots
• Work ladder stitch three ways
• Work basic brick stitch
• Add shaping to your brick stitch by increasing and decreasing
• Create flat and tubular Ndebele herringbone stitch pieces
• Shape tubular herringbone pieces with increases
• Add a twist pattern to your tubular herringbone pieces
• Master basic brick stitch, including increases, decreases, and two-bead square stitch
• Form jewelry using right-angle weave
• Join the ends of a right-angle weave piece to create a tube, then work tubular right-angle weave
• Build 3-D beaded objects by learning cubic right-angle weave
This Jewelry Classes On Demand download includes:
• A video showing demonstrations of each technique listed
• A downloadable PDF that includes written instructions and illustrations for the techniques AND easy-to-follow instructions for four projects, so you can use your new skills right away.
The PDF included with this video features a brick stitch bracelet that includes increases and decreases to form diamond shapes, a spiraling herringbone lariat embellished with beaded fringe, square stitch bracelets that also show you how you can add a color pattern to your work, and a woven crystal right-angle weave bracelet that's a great first-time project.
Jewelry Classes on Demand's Technique Series is brought to you by Bead&Button, BeadStyle, and Art Jewelry magazines. Each Technique Series video includes a downloadable PDF with written instructions and illustrations of the techniques demonstrated, as well as easy-to-follow instructions and photos of a project or projects. Download a Technique Series video now, and you’ll master the technique in no time, plus you'll have the video to refer to as you make new projects.
Art Jewelry magazine associate editor, Addie Kidd, became a jewelry maker the moment her toddler fingers first slid a pony bead onto a length of cord. She edits, writes, and designs projects and technique articles, and she serves as the metals technical editor for the magazine.
Anna Draeger, associate editor of Bead&Button magazine, has been designing beaded jewelry for the past 20 years, concentrating for the last 10 on developing a line of designs to teach at the Bead&Button Show and at local bead stores.
Linda Augsburg has been designing and making jewelry for 10 years. She’s spent her 20-year career helping would-be creative folks learn new skills so they can make their own fabulous jewelry, quilt, and craft projects. She is the senior editor of online content for Bead&Button, BeadStyle, and Art Jewelry magazines.
Jewelry Classes on Demand also offers a Peyote Stitch Basics Technique Series video for $12.95. Or you can purchase the Bead Stitching Basics and Peyote Stitch Basics as the Stitches Technique Series bundle for just $24.95.
