Danielle Wickes is the Creative Director for John Bead. She specializes in working with seed beads, bead-weaving, and looming, creating hand-knotted mala and yoga jewelry, crochet, and jewelry made with leather and wire.
If you would like to try more advanced projects, we have a Facebook group you can join where we post all our project PDFS.
In this class we will combine beautiful Czech crystal and seed beads into a flowing river of sparkle. We will show a fun way to create a multi-strand bracelet from a bridge of herringbone stitch.
The Recorded Class is here.
About our Instructor Danielle Wickes
Danielle Wickes is a Designer and Content Creator for John Bead. She specializes in working with seed beads, bead-weaving, and looming, creating hand-knotted mala and yoga jewelry, crochet, and jewelry made with leather and wire.
In this class we will share an intro to the beautiful world of Czech Crystal, its history, and fun facts about its manufacture, remarkable color and finishes. We will demo a quick style where crystal is the focus of an adaptable design.
The Recorded Class is here.
About our Instructor Danielle Wickes
Danielle Wickes is a Designer and Content Creator for John Bead. She specializes in working with seed beads, bead-weaving, and looming, creating hand-knotted mala and yoga jewelry, crochet, and jewelry made with leather and wire.
In this class we demo a fun spin on basic bead stringing to create a bracelet with Cornelian star beads and using 2-Hole Twin beads to make a starburst shape in the stringing. We will finish the bracelets with a charm and demo a fun dangle you can make with craft wire and any beads you may have in your stash. You can use any colors you like to create this bracelet.
About our Instructor Danielle Wickes
Danielle Wickes is John Bead’s Creative Director. She specializes in working with seed beads, bead-weaving, and looming, creating hand-knotted mala and yoga jewelry, crochet, and jewelry made with leather and wire.
In this class, we will demonstrate how to follow a great pattern from Preciosa Ornela called “Filled Tubes!”
We will build these earrings as described in the original pattern. In this supplement we have added a row-by-row word chart to recreate the patterns that are featured on the last page of their pattern. We have adapted the colors of beads used.
John Bead Czech Twin 2-Hole Beads
Peach Dyed, 67901020
Opaque Brown Iris, 67901003
Transparent Topaz, 67902010
Plus
10mm Wooden, 4 Beads, 286520-09
10mm Tiger’s Eye, 2 Beads, 27600615-03S8
22 gauge Craft Wire, Gold, 250CW22G-SILRGLD
Head Pins, Fancy 2inch, 26001401-173
Ear wire with Bead, 26001401-023
Wildfire .006, 74423057-01
Thread Scissors, 74509607
Beading Mat, 74509851
Chain Nose Pliers, 22801016-05
Round Nose Pliers, 74524876
Flush Cutters, 74524870
The Recorded Class
About our Instructor Danielle Wickes
Danielle Wickes is John Bead’s Creative Director. She specializes in working with seed beads, bead-weaving, and looming, creating hand-knotted mala and yoga jewelry, crochet, and jewelry made with leather and wire.
Introducing Contemporary Geometric Beadwork, an open source architectural beadwork project from Kate McKinnon and a worldwide team of innovators! In this class, Danielle Wickes will walk you through a favorite CGB project, a peyote triangle.
The Recorded Class is here.
About our Instructor Danielle Wickes
Danielle Wickes is a Designer and Content Creator for John Bead. She specializes in working with seed beads, bead-weaving, and looming, creating hand-knotted mala and yoga jewelry, crochet, and jewelry made with leather and wire.
John Bead Czech Seed Beads are a great medium for gemstone jewelry! The colors of the seed beads pull out and compliment the hues in your semi-precious stones. In class we will string beautiful, 8mm Jasper gemstones on iris brown seed beads for an earthy feeling necklace. This class is beginner-friendly.
The Recorded Class is here.
About our Instructor Danielle Wickes
Danielle Wickes is a Designer and Content Creator for John Bead. She specializes in working with seed beads, bead-weaving, and looming, creating hand-knotted mala and yoga jewelry, crochet, and jewelry made with leather and wire.
John Bead Czech 2-Hole Twin Beads are combined with 11/0 seed beads in this unique flower design with a twist. Create in many color palettes for a fun stacker bracelet, or in an ombre style for an elegant collar length necklace.
About our Instructor Danielle Wickes
Danielle Wickes is a Designer and Content Creator for John Bead. She specializes in working with seed beads, bead-weaving, and looming, creating hand-knotted mala and yoga jewelry, crochet, and jewelry made with leather and wire.
