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Free project: Right-angle weave on the diagonal |
Show up to your beach parties wearing stitchwork with pearls! Beaders who love right-angle weave, this one’s for you. Challenge your skills with a sophisticated necklace in which modified right-angle weave is complemented with top-drilled pearls. Then create a peyote toggle clasp that blends seamlessly into the ends of the band. |
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SPONSORED BY: SHIPWRECK BEADS |
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Tell us what you think — and win |
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Have you read the August issue of Bead&Button? We'd love to know what you thought of it. Take our survey and while you're at it, enter to win this collection of beads! Included in this month’s gorgeous assortment: a 40 mm focal bead, 4 x 8 mm Piggy beads, 2.5 x 5 mm SuperDuo beads, 6 mm round faceted fire-polished beads, 6 mm round gemstones, 8 mm coin pearls, 8 mm baroque pearls, 4 mm round glass beads, and 11/0 seed beads. (The bead dish is not included.) A winner will be selected the week of September 23, 2019, and will be notified by email. No purchase necessary to win. Congrats to Kathrine B. from Shelby, NC, who won the last survey giveaway! |
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Winners of the June Design Challenge: LET’S GO 3-D |
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We asked you to set aside your jewelry submissions in June, and send us your structural objects — built with jewelry supplies. You stepped up to the challenge and submitted boxes, purses, and vessels! The Readers’ Choice Winner this month is Kimberly Newman from Urbana, OH. View this and all the winners on Facet. |
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Innovative brides are opting to walk down the aisle with button-flower bouquets instead of fresh-cut flowers. Special buttons, such as those from a grandfather’s everyday sweater to ones from Mom’s wedding gown, can be incorporated to make these one-of-a-kind bouquets even more distinctive for the big day. Trendy toss → |
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The one thing we all love more than our jewelry making: our pets! Felines, canines, and other domesticated critters take center stage this August. We want to see how you immortalize your beloved companions: as a brooch or a bracelet, a pendant or a pair of earrings! Whether they wear fur, feathers, or fins, live in a tank, or under a heat lamp, share them with us! Check out the photos → |
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Get a sneak preview of the October issue of Bead&Button magazine, which will be arriving on newsstands soon! Find bushels of inspiration as you use bead weaving, embroidery, and cubic right-angle weave to create necklaces, bracelets, and earrings. Adorn a pendant with Sherry Serafini’s cornucopia of techniques. Turn a new leaf as you try a revised kumi process. And follow our guide to a bounty of natural beading materials. Check out the slideshow → |
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Come join us in Lake Tahoe! |
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We are so pleased to let you know about this inspiring jewelry-making retreat brought to you by the team behind the Bead&Button Show. Six wonderful instructors will each teach an immersive, technique-driven three-day jewelry-making class, sure to take your skills to the next level. Beaders like Sherry Serafini and Cindy Kinerson are among the instructors. It’s all taking place at the Granlibakken Tahoe Resort in the stunning mountain town of Tahoe City, CA. |
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Free project: Wallflower finery |
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Let the cool ocean colors call to you! Use tiny cube beads, crystals, and seed beads to create a bracelet in a width to suit your own style! A faux right-angle weave technique means the rows come together in a flash and leaves you with the perfect places to attach a multistrand slide clasp. |
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Free project: Surfin’ the waves |
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Make waves with this flat Cellini necklace using everything from 11/0 seed beads to 6/0s! This is a great project to perfect your Cellini stitch technique. |
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