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By: Ikedi Ani-okoye.

Beading on the internet

The internet has great information on the art of beading. These sites gives great instructions on how to create your own beaded jewelry, and also provides great patterns as templates for your designs. You can learn to make earrings, wire jewelry, hemp jewelry, and much more. In addition, they provide a beading supply guide and gemstone guide that will help you do your research before venturing out to buy items that you don't need (like I did).

Also, they have a beading glossary to help you sort out the definitions of the different beading terms, which is helpful because you need to know the difference between resin, turquoise and glass beads if you're going to get serious about beading. Also, they have a bead shop that sells the items that you need at a reasonable price and they also offer tools to get you started - this is a great one-stop-shop for a beginner just getting started.

Square stitch beading

Beading is becoming a very popular pastime for many people around the globe but why stick to simply stringing beads when you can have so much more? Square stitch beading allows for a lot greater variety in your beadwork and instead of simple creating a string of beads for necklaces, bracelets or earrings, you can now create your own beaded fabrics. In this article we discuss how you can learn this and some ideas of what you can make with this beading technique.

Beaded beads

Beaded beads are made up of a whole lot of smaller beads, usually using square stitch beading technique. In this article we will consider how you can make your own beaded bead and then use these in your beading projects.

Start by thinking about the colors you want your beaded bead to consist of. It can be one single color or multiple colors depending on how you want it to look in the end. Choose seed beads in that color to make it. Once you have your square or rectangular shape you want to turn it into a beaded bead. In order to do this you work your thread through your first and last rows together in order to sew them into a cylinder shape.

CONCLUSION

With beading being the ever growing hobby that it is, beading supply stores have sprung up all around many towns. It is not difficult to find a beading store in your area. When searching for a beading supply store, use the internet and find one nearest you. Ask your beading buddies for a reference. Make a connection in your area so that when you are searching for just the right stone you can call and be waited on with no hesitations.