Choose your decorating style from 71 elegant, fun & funky, snow & ice, or new traditions designs, and create dozens of sparkling Yuletide ornaments to fit the theme of your tree. Make stars, icicles, snowflakes, and whimsical characters.

Whether you've just started knitting or been knitting for years, you'll love fashioning these sparkling orbs! Each of the twelve designs cradles a clear glass ornament inside, and each knitted creation is highlighted by dozens of beads. Use yarn enhanced with a metallic thread to make your knitted orbs glow with reflected light. Display them near a window, heap them in bowls or vases, or hang them on ornament stands. These decorator items are beautiful year-round, and they make wonderful gifts! Each is knit of light/sport weight yarn using four double-pointed needles in size 5 (3.75mm). Beaded Ornaments to Knit (Leisure Arts #4595)

Decorating the tree is a very special Christmas tradition and the beaded ornament designs in this book will make it more unique and special. There are 6 different designs of covers for 2 1/2 inch (60mm) ball ornaments. Easy enough for beginners with full illustrations and satisfying enough for experienced beaders. Start a new holiday bead tradition!

It’s not surprising that beading has become one of the most popular crafts today — it's both inexpensive and produces decorative objects that are beautiful and enduring. For the novice or experienced beader looking for new holiday ideas, this book offers a wealth of possibilities. Drawn primarily from the pages of two of the leading magazines in the field, Beaded Ornaments for the Holidays and Beyond contains vibrant color photographs and easy instructions for making beaded ornament projects from the simple strung variety to more complex Victorian netting-style pieces. Ornamental covers, snowflake-shaped ornaments, and ornament hangers are all featured here. Most of these projects focus on pieces that can be used on a tree, wreath, or doorknob, yet with a change of color and materials any can be used year-round to decorate the home.

Beaded Ornament Covers Book Three offers five new designs. Each design is fully illustrated with color photos guiding you step by step through the process. These designs are a bit more detailed, so if you have never done ornament covers before you might want to start with Beaded Ornament Covers; A Beginner's Guide. Beading ornament covers can be addictive! But they look wonderful on the tree and make great gifts for those special people on your list. Look for other books by this author including our other ornament books, Wire Wrapping Stones and Beads, and Handmade, not Homemade: a Bead Stringing Guide. More pattern books coming soon!

★★★Beaded Ornaments: Lovely Beaded Ornament Patterns for Christmas★★★ Every Christmas tree deserves a little sparkle, and you can accomplish this in a variety of ways. You could add glitter ribbon, bright lights, a sparkling angel, and most importantly, beaded ornaments. This collection of DIY Beaded Ornaments offers you abundant inspiration for making your own sparkling embellishments for your home. You'll find free beaded ornament patterns, general ornament tutorials featuring beads, jewelry ornaments, and great ornaments for kids to make in this book.

If you are new to beaded ornament covers, then this is the book for you. Chapters 1 and 2 cover all the basics you need to know. The projects in Chapters 3 through 7 are all designed for beginners, with each one getting a little more technical than the last so you can build up your skills as you work your way through the book. Step by step color photo illustrations take you through each project, showing what your piece should look like as you work. Even with only these five designs there are lots of possibilities. Just changing the color of the beads and ornaments can look like a whole new creation. As you get more adventurous, you can experiment with fringe patterns and different beads for lots of different looks.