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Book Review: Linda Lehman's Bead Crochet Jewelry
Bead Crochet Jewelry Tips, Tools, and 15 Beautiful Projects by Linda Lehman
with Shelley Grant. Schiffer Publishing Company, 2004, ISBN 0-7643-2023-8 I bought this book from Jane's Fiber and Beads for $18.95 plus shipping. It doesn't seem to be on Amazon yet. I really like this book, but I don't think I could have learned how to bead crochet from this book. There are instructions for how to bead crochet, but there are only a few pictures and the written instructions would probably not be comprehensible if you hadn't seen it done. Having said this, there's a lot of good information in the book, although Linda Lehman takes a very different approach to threads than I have seen in other material. She uses cotton crochet threads or silk, rather than the 100% polyester top-stitch threads most books recommend and recommends blocking finished work to control the stretching. The patterns are nice and progress from easier to harder. She has a lot more information on finishing bead tubes in different ways than I had seen before. And she does offer a couple of web sources for threads that I hadn't found befo Elise |
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"Kathy N-V" wrote Thank you for posting this. I think that posting book and magazine reviews is a wonderful service to the group. Especially where the books aren't exactly pocket change, and it's impossible to get a good feel for them before ordering. Thanks. I have to mail order almost everything, and I'm a real book junkie -- at least this way I feel like other people get some benefit from my addiction. And thanks for the information - I've been looking at the book on Amazon (they say it will be available next week), but if it cannot teach me bead crochet, I think I'll pass on this particular title. Kathy N-V None of the books I've bought were adequate alone. The best instruction I've found is the Iverson/Forsyth article in the December 2001/January 2002 issue of Beadwork. I did take a class, which was not exactly productive. I'm lefthanded; the teacher was distinctly not and had no idea what I needed to change. I left almost as confused as I started. The one thing I got from the class (and you can get this from a Bead and Button article) was to start your tube with a ladder stitch of beads rather than a crocheted loop. Makes that first row a bit more stable. Elise |
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I'm taking a class from her at the B&B show. She e-mailed students last week
and seemed very nice and accommodating. Barbara |
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I'll really look forward to hearing how you liked it! (at least after I get
over my green-with-envy-snit that I can't go to B&B because it's in MAY and school's still in session). Elise "Barbara Forbes-Lyons" wrote in message ... I'm taking a class from her at the B&B show. She e-mailed students last week and seemed very nice and accommodating. Barbara |
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I too appreciate looking forward to your book reviews since books are
expensive and I am a book junkie. Roxan "EL" wrote in message ... Bead Crochet Jewelry Tips, Tools, and 15 Beautiful Projects by Linda Lehman with Shelley Grant. Schiffer Publishing Company, 2004, ISBN 0-7643-2023-8 I bought this book from Jane's Fiber and Beads for $18.95 plus shipping. It doesn't seem to be on Amazon yet. I really like this book, but I don't think I could have learned how to bead crochet from this book. There are instructions for how to bead crochet, but there are only a few pictures and the written instructions would probably not be comprehensible if you hadn't seen it done. Having said this, there's a lot of good information in the book, although Linda Lehman takes a very different approach to threads than I have seen in other material. She uses cotton crochet threads or silk, rather than the 100% polyester top-stitch threads most books recommend and recommends blocking finished work to control the stretching. The patterns are nice and progress from easier to harder. She has a lot more information on finishing bead tubes in different ways than I had seen before. And she does offer a couple of web sources for threads that I hadn't found befo Elise |
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