Features

Confessions of a Vintage Bead and Button
Collector
Kathryn Dannerbeck

The Cheapside Hoard: Seventeenth-Century
Jewelry We Could Wear Today
Diane Fitzgerald

Projects

Topaz Rendezvous
Peggy Wright
A snakelike lariat made with herringbone-stitched
triangle seed beads and tons of fringe

Shimmering Lace Bracelet
Tammy Fischer
A sparkly, feminine bracelet adorned with plenty of crystals and delicate seed beads

Wild Ruffle
Tina Koyama
A combination of brick and herringbone stitches
inspired by a variation of the Zulu-spearhead
peyote stitch

Jeweled Button Bracelet
Daeng Weaver
Favorite buttons framed with dazzling peyote-stitched bezels

Fit for a Queen
Julie Walker
An extravagant right-angle-weave choker

Flirty Flower Brooch
Louise Smith
An eye-catching, quick-to-make peyote-stitched pin

Luscious Lariat
Sonja S. Colt
A herringbone tube wrapped in a vine of beads
and crystals

Le Jardin
Julie Walker
Lavender flowers tiptoe across this bracelet’s
peyote-stitched band

Sumptuous Spiral
Nancy Sathre-Vogel
Though time-consuming, this triple spiral rope
necklace is oh so worth it!

Pretty Presents
Tippy Mueller
A charm bracelet of furnace-glass “packages”
wrapped with wire ribbons and bows

Star of India
Cristie Prince
A radiant (and cleverly reversible) ladder-stitched
necklace and bracelet set

Gentlewoman Collar
Arlene Baker
An elegant pearl choker excerpted from the newly
released Beaded Weddings book

Pearl Twist
Miwako Nara
A variation on the spiral-rope technique makes this bracelet curl

Pearly Mesh Earrings
Kelli Peduzzi
A quick project with a perfect contrast of metal mesh and silky pearls

Snow Fairy Bracelet
Tatiana Van Iten
A winter wonderland worked with four different
seed bead stitches

Star Light, Star Bright
Fran Morris Mandel
A heavenly peyote-stitched necklace with coordinating star-studded earrings