Creative Designs Using Shaped Beads Book by Anna Elizabeth Draeger

New shapes for bead stitching encourage creative design and play. And no one is more imaginative when it comes to designing beautiful jewelry for you to stitch and wear than Anna Elizabeth Draeger.

Each bead’s shape gives it a special place in the structure of a jewelry piece, which ANna compares to architecture. That is what ties all the projects in this book together: how individual shapes combine into beautifully dedsigned jewelry. As you stitch your favorites, you’ll discover Anna’s secrets for engineering focal beads, components and other building blocks of design.