On the Cover:
Sonya Necklace
by Peter Sewell

Katie Hacker Presents Interchangable Beads

Learn about Color Balance and Proportions from Margie Deeb

Katie Hacker
presents Easy-to-Fasten Clasps

How to Build a Portable Bead Studio

5 Basic Beading Terms

How to Design with Bead Frames

Designer of the Year Projects

	Blue Rondo Laura McCabe These tubular peyote–stitched loop earrings with goldcolored seed beads, tiny pearls, and soft blue glass cabochons will have you dancing the night away
	Go for Baroque Melanie Potter Netting and peyote stitches create this antique-inspired pendant, which features bezeled crystals and lacy seedbead fringe
	Empress’s New Jewels Nancy Cain Need a little crystal glitz? Use herringbone and peyote stitches to make this dazzling ring—or turn it into a showstopping pendant
	Classic Carmine Carole Ohl Right-angle weave joins deep red crystal rounds and rich bronze seed beads in an eye-catching pendant suspended from peyote-stitched straps

	Greensleeves Collar Jill Devon This gorgeous, multistrand right-angle-weave necklace is a true standout with its unique color combination of olive, plum, lime, and amethyst beads and crystals
	Sparkling Waves Shelley Nybakke Memory wire has never looked so lovely—use peyote stitch to make this fun and easy bracelet with seed beads and fire-polished rounds
	Urban Nights Bracelet Smadar Grossman Stitch this geometric bracelet’s shimmery panels with square stitch and finish them off with a sparkling clasp and you’re ready for an elegant night out
	Bezeled Beauties Bonnie Clewans Bezeling crystals has never been easier. Use pronglike seed-bead connections and metal frames to create these classy earrings
	Sonya Necklace Peter Sewell Exquisite and inventive, this necklace uses a Russian spiral variation with flat and tubular peyote stitches to showcase crystals and jet firepolished rounds
	Hopeless Romantic Lanai Kinsky Stitch burgundy fire-polished rounds and crystal pearls using a variation of daisy chain to make this timeless bracelet-and-earrings set
	Floral Chandelier Teresa Meister A new twist on circular herringbone stitch creates flowerlike medallions of amethyst seed beads and crystals
	Compass Rose Laina Goodman Learn to navigate circular herringbone stitch and netting in this bracelet, which features medallions centered by crystal pearls and embellished with fringe

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