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The Beaded Edge: Inspired Designs for Crocheted Edgings and Trims
Exquisite edges with beads.
Add a personal touch with beautiful beaded trims. The Beaded Edge offers 18 designs that range from delicate and classic to modern and bold, all created with simple thread, a crochet hook, a beading needle, and inexpensive beads. Each trim is illustrated with clear stitch diagrams that demonstrate the patterns, and the detailed step-by-step instructions will teach you to combine basic crochet techniques with beadwork for gorgeous edges and embellishments.
Use your beaded edges to customize handbags, hats, clothing, parasols, home décor, items, and anything else you want. If you have a passion for personalizing and embellishing, you will find a treasure trove of new techniques in The Beaded Edge.
Add a personal touch with beautiful beaded trims. The Beaded Edge offers 18 designs that range from delicate and classic to modern and bold, all created with simple thread, a crochet hook, a beading needle, and inexpensive beads. Each trim is illustrated with clear stitch diagrams that demonstrate the patterns, and the detailed step-by-step instructions will teach you to combine basic crochet techniques with beadwork for gorgeous edges and embellishments.
Use your beaded edges to customize handbags, hats, clothing, parasols, home décor, items, and anything else you want. If you have a passion for personalizing and embellishing, you will find a treasure trove of new techniques in The Beaded Edge.
87 pages, Paperback
First published January 18, 2011
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April 4, 2011
The Beaded Edge by Midori Nishida and CRK design is one of those books that proves how much the boundaries blur in handicrafts and art. Combining crocheting with beads to make gorgeous edgings that can be used in sewing and to embellish other crafts.
The techniques range from doing a basic crocheted edging and adding in beads with a needle and thread to some wonderful designs with the beads crocheted in to the design.
If you've found crocheted ropes and single crochet designs too limiting, this book is a great example of how much is possible.
Loops of beads create fringe, pretty little butterflies and elegant scallops. The threads used are mostly cotton crochet threads with steel hooks. They are well photographed and applied to a bunch of projects to inspire uses. Cards, jeans, sweaters and felt ornaments are all among the suggested uses.
As a crocheter and beader, I love this book. Some of the edgings are made simply enough that once you have the beads threaded, the motifs can be repeated easily while watching television. One of my favorites is just that sort of motif. The Soap Bubbles design is all one color bead, and it's a design that works an inch at a time until it's long enough. The example shown is edging pockets on a pair of jeans, but I can just as easily imagine it as a fine edging on a pair of gloves.
There are photographs to show how the motifs of the edgings are made and how they progress, with the instructions in the back of the book. Each page has the page number for that pattern. The patterns are both in international crochet notation and in very clear American terminology text, with more photos to show how the piece is made and stringing diagrams. I prefer international charts to text for patterns, so that made me very happy.
The book also included a few pages on the inspiration for the edgings, Turkish "oya" edgings used to edge scarfs. There are some beautiful photographs of some of those edgings, and photographs from the author's trip to Turkey. These add a nice personal touch and history to the edgings.
The techniques range from doing a basic crocheted edging and adding in beads with a needle and thread to some wonderful designs with the beads crocheted in to the design.
If you've found crocheted ropes and single crochet designs too limiting, this book is a great example of how much is possible.
Loops of beads create fringe, pretty little butterflies and elegant scallops. The threads used are mostly cotton crochet threads with steel hooks. They are well photographed and applied to a bunch of projects to inspire uses. Cards, jeans, sweaters and felt ornaments are all among the suggested uses.
As a crocheter and beader, I love this book. Some of the edgings are made simply enough that once you have the beads threaded, the motifs can be repeated easily while watching television. One of my favorites is just that sort of motif. The Soap Bubbles design is all one color bead, and it's a design that works an inch at a time until it's long enough. The example shown is edging pockets on a pair of jeans, but I can just as easily imagine it as a fine edging on a pair of gloves.
There are photographs to show how the motifs of the edgings are made and how they progress, with the instructions in the back of the book. Each page has the page number for that pattern. The patterns are both in international crochet notation and in very clear American terminology text, with more photos to show how the piece is made and stringing diagrams. I prefer international charts to text for patterns, so that made me very happy.
The book also included a few pages on the inspiration for the edgings, Turkish "oya" edgings used to edge scarfs. There are some beautiful photographs of some of those edgings, and photographs from the author's trip to Turkey. These add a nice personal touch and history to the edgings.
February 18, 2013
I've always been fascinated by the gorgeous beaded edges in oya, and this book was the perfect introduction. The patterns are beautiful, the instructions are clear and thorough, and there are pages of lovely project ideas. To top it off, it's a really pretty book: the designs and photography are stunning. Very highly recommended.
December 13, 2014
Not available through library
August 18, 2011
Very good instructions and ideas--I plan to make several for Xmas.
April 1, 2017
There are some clever ideas in here that I'm going to adapt for some future projects. Instructions are clear, for the most part. I feel like they could have provided a little more detail for some things but overall it's a decent reference.
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