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.

Attaching crystals and beads to flat braided cord; loomed affinity bracelet; beaded Kumihimo.

Torch-fired enameling; creating three-dimensional surfaces; cutting metal; cleaning tools.

Mixing colors and shapes in a bead palette before working out designs with different beads; crimping and creatively finishing necklaces.

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.