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.

Creating statement pieces with wire wrapping techniques; the fundamentals of fabrication using found metal and wire; texture hammers.

Forming beads from glass for jewelry and accessories; coiled beads.

An embellished crown using clay and embedded gems; combining leather and seed beads.

Using knitted wire, ruffles and ripples to make a necklace; making a bracelet on a loom using leather cord and crystal beads.