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.

Twisted wire and bead earrings; simple beaded edgings; crystallizing flats.

Adding transfers and illustrations to a pendant made with sparkle clay; recreating the Asian art of raku to make a necklace using clay and mica powders; buffing clay elements.

Necklaces and other jewelry featuring quartz points; making jewelry from pearls in different shapes, colors and sizes; cooling down designs in die-cut leather; how bead-making benefits children with health challenges.

Using tools to make cold connections; metalworking with saws, shears and hammers; metalwork jewelry.