Product Description

The Stori of Beaded Embellishment
by Mari Stori

Bedeck Your Quilts with Beautiful Beads

Developed specifically with quilters in mind, these savvy tips and techniques for beading on fabric will show you how fun it is to embellish your quilts with texture and detail for maximum visual impact. Give your quilts a sparkle, a shimmer, a twinkle, a glimmer--it's easy with the versatility of beads!

· Helpful instructions walk you through making beaded fringes, appliqués, waves, spikes, trims, and dangles

· Eight dazzling, step-by-step quilt projects will inspire you to use an amazing array of beads in your quilts

· Learn about the many bead sizes, shapes, and styles available, from common seed beads and whimsical beads to exotic beads made from crystal quartz, coral, and amber

No previous beading experience or special equipment is needed--just a needle, some thread, your favorite beads, and a desire to delight the eye.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #707763 in Books
• Published on: 2001-02-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 96 pages

About the Author
Mary Stori is the author of several popular books, including The Stori Book of Embellishing and The Wholecloth Garment Stori, and four times has been a designer for the prestigious Fairfield Fashion Show. Her work has appeared in Quilter's Newsletter and many other leading magazines.

Customer Reviews

The Stori of Beaded Embellishment
I absolutely loved the book and am already starting to collect beads..."anything with a hole in it" ! It may be "non-traditional" but the information is priceless. As a person who has never added beads to anything I found the stitch instructions were well written and the illustrations are excellent, well worth the price of the book. As an added bonus, you can get some great ideas of how to use beads by studying some of Mary Stori's very whimisical and funny quilts. You will love the humor in all Mary's quilts and her techniques for using beads are fantastic.

Add a little glitz or a LOT
Mary Stori has staked out the world of beaded embellishment as her specialty and it is a good thing for the rest of us. Her enthusiasm for the form is palpable, her directions are clear and complete. The quilt designs sown in the book are more cute than elegant, but this reflects the type of small projects that one could finish in a workshop. The methods could easily be adapted to more sophisticated applications.   Mary shows each stitch in a close up picture and illustration and accompanies this with written instructions that are easy to follow. If you follow her suggestion and make a beaded sampler of each stitch, you will be well on your way to embellishing your first real project. Tip and tricks keep you from making the same mistakes she made while learning. Eight projects are given in detail.