Thursday, March 4, 2010

Lovable Beaded Creatures


"Lovable Beaded Creatures"
By Anja Freese, German original published in 2001
Available on Amazon

This is the 17th beading book I've bought, but the first one in English :) The book has patterns both for beaded animals and some jewelry, like brooches and woven bracelets, though that last section is by far the smallest part. One thing that puzzles me a little is that there is a pattern for a lizard brooch, but there is no picture of the finished item...


The pattern and the picure of the finished animal are shown together on the same page(s), so you don't have to look back and forth in the book. A genious thing about the patterns in this book, that I can't believe no one else has done, is to put a number next to each row that indicates the number of beads in that row. That means you don't have to count the beads, which is especially practical when the pattern is all one color.

All the animals are three-dimensional, and all the patterns are colored. Some of the patterns are:

Bear with honey pot
Owl
Weasel
Fox
Mole
Baby seal
Poison arrow frogs
Octopus
Killer whale
Angelfish
King penguin & chick
Swan
Hummingbird
Anteater
Kangaroo
Butterflies
Cobra
Guinea pig