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.

A copper fringed tassel featuring fabric; a micro macramé leather cuff; waxed cord bracelets.

Wire frames; illusion-style necklaces with crystals.

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.

Reversible jewelry features a southwestern look on one side and a fine jewelry look on the other; dangles and drops using leather and sew-on crystal stones.