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The Beaded Garden by Diane Fitzgerald is your guide to creating flowers and garden creatures with beads and thread. Beautiful color photos and easy-to-follow instructions will inspire beaders.

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The Beaded Garden
Creating Flowers with Beads and Thread

Author: Diane Fitzgerald
Pages: 125
Page size: 8" x 7 1/2"
Publisher: Interweave Press
Cover: Soft
Item Code: 4G0BE153
Weight: 1.20 lb
~~MSRP: $21.95~~

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About the Author

Diane Fitzgerald is an internationally recognized bead artist, teacher, and author of Netted Beadwork and Beading with Brick Stitch. She is continually creating new designs for beadwork jewelry at her shop, Beautiful Beads, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Your Beaded Garden Field Guide

Here's an exciting exploration of the craft of making flowers with tiny glass beads and thread, weaving these elements together with off-loom stitches to make three-dimensional flowers, leaves, and garden creatures. Beaders and gardeners alike with delight in these bright-as-nature projects.

Create with a variety of stitches included brick, peyote, netting, herringbone, and right-angle weave
Beautiful color photos and easy-to-follow instructions will inspire beaders to cultivate their own bouquets and jewelry
Stroll through a colorful gallery of pieces from well-known bead artists

Welcome to my Garden	8
Flower Basics	10
Simplified Flower Anatomy	10
Some Notes on Constructing Flowers	10
Flower Parts and Leaves	16
Stamen	16
Bulbous Stamen	17
Round Domed Stamen	18
Stamen from Artificial Flowers	18
Beaded Stem	18
Calyx	19
Flat Calyx	20
Oval Petals or Leaves	22
Long Thin Leaves or Petals	28
Palm Leaf	29
Leaf with Jagged Edge	32
Netted Leaf	33
Large Flowers	34
Water Lily	35
Star Flower with Curved Petal Tips	37
Multipetal Flower	39
Rolled Flowers	40
Scottish Thistle	47
Large Daffodil	50
Calla Lily	52
Cluster Flower	52
Poppy	53
Bromeliad	55
A Perfect Pansy	56
Morning Glory	59
Cattleya Orchid	62
Rose	67
Small Flowers	72
Tiny Tulips	73
Other Flowers Made with Herringbone Stitch	76
Tiny Daffodil	78
Small Rose	79
Crystal Star Flower	80
Star Flower #1	81
Star Flower #2	81
Lilies of the Valley	84
Brooch Flower Holder	85
Eight-Petal Flower	86
Daisy	87
Fleabane	88
Garden Creatures	90
Beetle	91
Butterfly	92
Dragonfly with a Wire Armature	96
Small Dragonfly	98
Caterpillar	100
Beading Basics	104
Brick Stitch	104
Peyote Stitch (tubular)	106
Lark's Head Knot Beginning	107
Sewing Overlapping Petals Together	107
Joining Edges with Square Stitch	108
Square Knot	108
A Gallery of Inspiration	109
Bibliography	121
Index	123

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