Jewelry Making For Beginners: Beading Techniques & Stitches

You will learn the basic beading techniques and bead weaving stitches to make 3 types of beaded jewelry in this course. At the beginning of the course, I will introduce some popular types of beads, jewelry wires, tools and findings, all of the materials information and recommended shopping websites will be listed in the PDF file in this course.

In the bead and wire section, you will learn how to use jewelry pliers to work with jewelry wires, metal frames, chains and findings, including making eye pins, bead links, wire wrapped loops and connecting different jewelry components to make beautiful jewelry pieces.

During the bead stringing section, I will introduce different types of stringing materials and stringing tools. Then I will show you how to make bead stringing jewelry with different stringing materials. You will lean different ways to do crimping, make elastic bracelets and floating bead necklaces.

In the bead weaving sections, you will be guided through the process of how to make beaded jewelry with some popular bead weaving stitches and their variations, including Right-Angle Weave stitch, Ladder Stitch and different types of beaded flower stitches to make beaded jewelry with crystal beads, glass pearls and different sized seed beads.