"Friends don't let friends wear ordinary jewelry." --Jamie Cloud Eakin"Jamie Cloud Eakin is a beading superstar--and in this follow-up to her bestselling "Dimensional Bead Embroidery" she explains the fundamentals of beautiful design, from picking the beads to choosing a palette. Through 30 gorgeous step-by-step projects especially chosen to show principles of construction, Eakin lays out the secrets of creating fringe, multistrand, shaped, and other forms of beadwork. Her goal is to help beaders create their own jewelry built around unique focal pieces, and whether it's the sequence of the steps or the use of a particular technique, you'll find her lessons valuable as you embark on your own design journey.