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V O L U M E 13

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departments

48

featured projects

Passing Through

Designer of the Year Projects

Letters

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Contributors

Glamorous diamond-shaped medallions compose this

bracelet, which uses ladder, netting, and picot stitches
to create a feast of texture with seed beads, fire-polished
rounds, potato pearls, andof coursecrystals

12 The Challenge
16 Custom Cool

on the cover

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20 Cool Stuff
:: Diamonds Are Forever
by Marcia DeCoster

Katie Hacker

40 Scarletts Style

BEAD EMBROIDERY 74
BRICK STITCH 72
CRIMPING 44, 45, 46, 60
FRINGE 40, 60, 72, 84
GEM-SETTING 81
HERRINGBONE STITCH 40, 46
LADDER STITCH 46, 48, 72
NETTING 48, 52, 60
PEYOTE STITCH 16, 40, 56, 60,
72, 74, 81, 84
PICOT 48, 52, 74, 81
RIGHT-ANGLE WEAVE 40, 52,
68, 74, 86
RUSSIAN SPIRAL 72
SQUARE STITCH 68
STRINGING 40, 44, 45, 46, 60
TRIANGLE WEAVE 16
WIREWORKING 40, 44, 46,
56, 60, 86

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INTERCONNECTIONS Jamie Hogsett

Get ready to mingleblue, olive, and teal seed beads
stitched into interlinking peyote tubes complement a
bold lampworked focal in this ingenious necklace

Scarlett Lanson

102 Techniques
104 Bead Buzz

PEARL EMBRACE COLLAR Lisa Kan

Freshwater pearls and lustrous seed beads reach the
height of elegance with this right-angle-weave necklace,
which also incorporates netting and picot techniques
for 3-D effect

22 Katies Beading Secrets

STITCH INDEX

DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER Marcia DeCoster

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GLAM GARLAND Jean Campbell

Tubular-peyote stitch, netting, fringe, stringing, and
wireworking techniques all come together with a unique
combination of sparkling crystals and matte resin in
this dazzling, festive necklace

64

David Chatts
World
of Glass

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FAST & FABULOUS: HOLIDAY EDITION

Marlene Blessing, Danielle Fox, and Jamie Hogsett
From herringbone-stitched to wireworked and simply
strung, these three merry necklaces stitch up quickly
and easily, just in time for your next soiree

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:: Cascading Links Bracelet

by Cynthia Rutledge

DAVID CHATT: NEW HORIZONS IN GLASS

After twenty years of dedicated seed beading, renowned
artist David Chatt explores new horizons in glass while living
in a secluded artists community for three years

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BEADWORK MASTER CLASS

DESIGN DISCOVERY: FINDING INSPIRATION

IN NEW MATERIALS AND TRAVELS
Cynthia Rutledge
Setting and bezeling stones is a new passion for Cynthia, who also
shares secrets about her myriad inspirations and her design process
when shes on the road

projects
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MODERN ART CUFF Kate McKinnon

This gallery-worthy, double-layered bracelet, made using
right-angle weave and square stitch, is a wearable
objet dart

72

SOUTHWEST SHIMMER Mary M. Pfeiler

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:: Modern Art Cuff by Kate McKinnon

An inventive combination of turquoise beads and copper

sequins forms the focal piece of this eye-catching necklace,
which is worked using ladder, peyote, brick, and netting stitches

74

MEMENTO MOSAIC Jeanne Barta Craine

Unique buttons and beads become the center of attention in this
keepsake bracelet, which incorporates bead embroidery, peyote stitch,
and right-angle weave

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CASCADING LINKS BRACELET Cynthia Rutledge

Try your hand at the stone setting and bezeling techniques highlighted
in Cynthias Master Class (page 78) by creating a flat- and tubularpeyote-stitch bracelet resplendent with metallic and rosy hues

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ARABELLA BRACELET Regina Atkins

This sweet song of a braceletwith a peyote-stitched base and a
crystal-pearl fringeis a lovely way to adorn your wrist

86

RIBBON BLOSSOM BROOCH Arlene Baker

Accent your favorite jacket or purse with this modern bloom, created
from hematite-colored fire-polished rounds using two-needle rightangle weave and wireworking

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bonus
project!
:: Clever Connections
Necklace by Katie Hacker
on the Web at
beadworkmagazine.com