Host Katie Hacker discusses and demonstrates styles, media and techniques for making jewelry, beading and metal work. Step-by-step lessons, from basic to advanced, help viewers create their own one-of-a-kind designs. Among the focuses of the show is heirlooms, with new twists on traditional jewelry-making techniques. Some projects include a rippled bracelet embellished with beads; unconventional jewelry with a variety of threads, cords and large beads; and rings and earrings with vintage and new buttons.
Using half-Tila beads to make a bezel setting for a crystal rivoli; creating earrings and a bracelet using a circular peyote beadweaving stitch using two-hole beads; wire-wrapped leather cuff.
Ombre bib-style necklace using twisted jump rings; soldered ring band from twisted wire; wire crochet bead ball bracelet.
Bending and shaping sheet metal; enhancing designs with patterns, texture and color; charm bracelet.
Hammering, texturing and coloring metal; using eyelets and rivets for cold connections; snap finding.