Free Beading Patterns

	Free Beading Patterns Professional and hobbiest beaders offer their free patterns for creating your own beaded jewelry and accessories. All the website owners have included their favorite crafty tips on the creation, use, and care of items constructed from beads and gem stones.
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Great Free Beading Patterns Websites

Eureka! Beads - Free Beading Instructions
	Huge range of free beading instructions, including instructions for magnetic wraps, tigertail chokers, crystal earrings, chain bracelets and more. We also have a full online store, where you can find the glass beads, findings, semi precious beads and more needed for your project. Beading Crafty Tip To finish an elastic beading project, either add a clasp using crimps (be aware that this will weaken the elastic), or tie a strong knot, dabbing a little clear nail polish or glue to strengthen.
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Free Jewelry Beading Patterns
	This site shares over 40 free beading patterns. Patterns include plenty of pictures so that even beginning beaders will be able to create their own beaded jewelry. Instructions include bead suggestions and substitution recommendations. Site includes a gallery of beaded jewelry others have created from these patterns. Be sure to check out Ruby's book, "Beading with Ruby ~ A Beginner's guide to creating beautiful beaded jewelry" to find 30 more beading patterns and tips on crafting with beads. Beading Crafty Tip Depending on what beads you've used, you may have to increase or decrease the amount of beads in the last 2 rows, or you may have to increase or decrease the number of rows you use. For instance, Japanese size 11 beads are slightly larger than size 11 Czech beads, or Delicas. If you don't have any size 15.0 beads, you can use Charlottes, which are size 13, but you may have to adjust the count when you use those too. Since the beading takes so little time, it's easy to tear our a row or two to make adjustments.
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Free Bead Patterns by Robyn
	Robyn offers a number of well-illustrated step-by-step beading techniques. These projects mainly use seed beads and druks to make a variety of necklaces and bracelets. Beading Crafty Tip Car upholstery thread is a great alternative to beading thread. In fact, I prefer it.
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Aunt Molly's Bead Street Free seed bead patterns and instructions. A wide variety of pattern types using the loom/square stitch, peyote/gourd stitch, two drop peyote stitch, and the brick/Comanche stitches. There's even a selection of fun patterns for beginners along with an easy brick stitch tutorial. Beading Crafty Tip Have fun with color, just because a pattern shows pink and blue beads doesn't mean you can't make your beaded item with green and purple beads. 5809 Visitors Since Nov 17, 2006 Additional Details Is this your site?

Beadnik - Free Beading Tutorials Learn how to bead around a cabochon with my easy to follow beading tutorial. There's several other great tutorials along with a number of free patterns. Editor's Note: The artist also shares some of her award-winning beadwork to inspire the bead lover in all of us. Bead Weaving Crafty Tip Try doing the right angle stitch with 2 needles - you will be amazed how much faster it is than using only one needle. 5631 Visitors Since Nov 17, 2006 Additional Details Is this your site?



Beltana's Beads This site has tutorials on how to make tubular peyote, spiral rope chain, tubular net, loomwork and Cheyenne/Brick stitch. Each technique is presented in the form of a project how to. Bead Weaving Crafty Tip When using a beading loom, add 3-4 inches to the length of your warp threads to achieve the desired length for the finished piece. 2819 Visitors Since Sep 1, 2009 Additional Details Is this your site?

Guide to Beadwork First published in 1989, the Guide to Beadwork was sold through beading stores in the northwest corner of the United States. The author, Greg Vinson still sells printed copies of his book but has made it available online for free. He covers the chevron chain and daisy chains and the flower, twill, gourd, brick and lace stitches. Along with all of the wonderful and well-illustrated instruction on beading, Greg has assembled what must be the largest list of beading stores and suppliers on the web. Beading Crafty Tip Rather than knot or burn the end of your thread, weave the end through your beaded piece by traveling through the beads and doubling back on the same path. This will provide a bit of give and flexibility to your piece as well as leave no unsightly knots or burned bits. 2057 Visitors Since Sep 5, 2009 Additional Details Is this your site?

Evelyn's Beadie Page Beaded animals, Pokemon characters, teddy bears, cartoon characters, assorted critters, stars are just some of the over 200 free beadie patterns on this site. This website is a virtual treasure trove of cute and clever beaded charms. Beading Crafty Tip When beading with pony beads, use a bit of transparent tape on the ends of your beading cord to keep the cord from fraying and to make a point to insert into the beads. 2469 Visitors Since Dec 12, 2009 Additional Details Is this your site?

Bead Studio A wonderful bead shop from Oregon that offers their beads and findings for sale online as well as a huge collection of free projects and beading patterns. The projects are fully illustrated and well-explained and offer a large variety of pieces. Beads are offering singly, by the strand, by weight or by count. Crafty Tip To make a necklace using ultrasuede, slide the end of the suede through a soldered ring. Fold the suede over the ring leaving about a half inch tail. Use 24 guage wire to attach the tail to the main strand and secure the ring by tightly wrapping the wire around the tail and main strand. 1575 Visitors Since Feb 15, 2011 Additional Details Is this your site?