Product Description

Create gorgeous gifts and delightful decorations with over 35 beautiful beaded designs guaranteed to bring a sparkle to your home this Christmas. Last minute variation projects are ideal for when time is short. Discover the versatility of beads with colours and designs ranging from the classic to the contemporary. Easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions cover a huge range of techniques, including bead loom weaving, bead stitches, bead embroidery and beads and wire.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #68486 in Books
• Published on: 2007-08-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 112 pages

About the Author
Dorothy Wood is a talented and prolific craft author. Since completing a course in Advanced Embroidery and Textiles, she has written over 20 craft books. This is her seventh book for D&C - her first was the best-selling Simple Glass Beading. She contributes to magazines including Crafts Beautiful and Cardmaking & Papercraft and Beautiful Cards, and lives near Loughborough, Leicestershire.

Customer Reviews

Simply sparkling christmas beading
To all you beaders out there. What a cracking book. It's one of those must open, must read, must try books. I got it and immediately when I got home set to work. Instructions are clear and easy to follow. I am facinated by the designs for the crackers and the table decorations. I have made one of them and looking forward to making others. Not as fiddly as some of the other works I have recommended in the past and it is easy to see your progress. These designs are great for your own Christmas decorations or to pass on to loved ones (who will appreciate the time and effort involved).

Simply Spectacular!
I purchased this book for myself with a view to making some beaded Christmas decorations for next Christmas. It cost me a little over £7 including postage. I hoped that it would be full of special creations that would make an impact. I was not disappointed. This book is absolutely spectacular. I am a beading novice I have to say but I carnt wait to have a go at the items therein. There are some simple decorations and others that are probably for the more experienced. It is a very inspiring book, beautifully laid out with clear, concise instructions. There are beaded adornments for Christmas stockings, crackers, candles, candle holders, gift bags, twirly decorations for the tree .. the list goes on. There is also a section on making beaded jewelry. The projects in this book could easily be given as special gifts too. Not like too many other books with a Christmas theme, there is no twee here, it is just crammed with the prettiest things you ever did see. I carnt imagine there being a better book out there than this one on the subject of Christmas Beading. Highly recommended.

Lovely book with wide variety of projects
This is a lovely book, full of many different types of beading projects in wide variety of styles and colours, something for everyone!