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.

Color block necklace; shaping peyote stitch; beaded holiday ornaments; gluing crystal embellishments.

A faux filigree design using a jig to bend wire; using wire as the framework for a musical wind chime.

Blending beads, stones and pearls to make bracelets, necklaces and earrings; using knotted cords and beads to make bracelets.

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