Bead and Button Magazine August 2011 Issue 104

This magazine features 17 projects using your favorite techniques, jewelry with the hottest beads, and the new Ask Anna column. This issue has instructions for necklaces, bracelets, beaded beads, and an ornament. Techniques used are bead weaving, chain mail, crossweave, daisy chain, fringe, herringbone stitch, kumihimo, netting, peyote stitch, right-angle weave, square stitch, stringing and wirework. This issue also has book and product reviews, the basics, artist profile on Melanie Moertel, and an article about an all-women’s village in Kenya creating traditional beadwork to support their community. Summertime inspired projects in this issue are Intertwined Elements Necklace, Bling-A-Ling Bracelet with Crystals, Darling Daggers Bracelet, Keep it in Line Necklace with Peanut Beads, Beaded Bead Bounty, Scale the Heights Kumihimo Necklace with Magatamas, Cutting Corners Bracelet with Tila Beads, Net Some Glamour Necklace and Bracelet, Heavy Metal Bands Bracelet, Layered Chains Chain Mail Bracelet, European Motif Ornament, and Wire Expressions Copper Necklace and Bracelet. This magazine has 106 pages and was printed in the USA.