Beaded Bags
Want to make the perfect handbag for holiday festivities or any special occasion? You're sure to find one you'll love in the Beaded Bag Series from BagLady Press.
It's easy to create beautiful, yet simple, bead knitted handbags and pendant bags with the six booklets in this wonderful series. The 48-to 56-page booklets are designed for crafters of all skill levels, and each features comprehensive instructions and patterns for several bags. You can complete a pendant bag in only a few hours or a handbag in several hours more.
Carol Zentgraf
Assistant Editor
Sew News Magazine
Copyright 1996 Sew News Magazine, PJS Publications
Bead-it Bags
Making small items seems endlessly popular, so it's not surprising that there would be renewed curiosity about knit beaded bags.
Theresa Williams, The BagLady, has published three booklets on beaded bags. They were written to create interest in an age-old craft and to merge several artforms (bead knitting, beadwork, embroidery, and ribbon work)in new, exciting ways.
Each booklet carefully spells out the steps to make a beaded bag, beginning with the necessary skills and ending with assembly and finishing. In each, Theresa gives us a clever poem with lines such as: "Work a little, play a lot, bead up a storm; Work a little, play a lot, knit from dusk til morn." She also includes an appendix with definitions, sources, reference books and care guidelines. It's obvious that she's done her homework and has thought a lot about her approach.
Best of all, these are not projects that will take a lifetime to make. The small pendant bags can be made in a few hours. The suggested retail prices are $10.95 for the Pendant Bag Booklet and $11.95 for the Knitted Handbags 1 and 2.
Bag Lady Press
PO Box 2409
Evergreen, CO 80437-2409
303-670-2177
WWW page:
http://www.baglady.com
Nancy J. Thomas
Editor
Knitter's Magazine
Copyright 1996 Knitter's Magazine
Needlework Library Section
In this series of three booklets, Williams provides step-by-step instructions for knitting her beaded bag designs, as well as instructions for finishing and diagrams to guide in embellishing the bags with silk ribbon embroidery. Bead Knitted Handbags 1 features three delicately shaded handbags, while Bead Knitted Handbags 2 has handbags in bolder reds, blues, and greys. Taking inspiration from Victorian finger purses, Bead Knitted Pendant Bags features two patterns for tiny purses to be hung as pendants from matching necklaces. All of the projects require only basic knitting skills, and Williams illustrates a technique to string the beads easily onto the knitting thread. Explore the creative possibilities of combining needlework techniques with these booklets as your guide, and allow these projects to bring a bit of Victoriana to your accessory collection.
Melissa Williamson
Editorial Assistant
McCall's Needlework Magazine
Copyright 1996 McCall's Needlework Magazine, PJS Publications
Very New Very Vogue Section
... And of course, there are other websites for crafters. Do you want to make a delicate, beaded bag or pendant for a special occasion? The BagLady site (World Wide Web site http://www.baglady.com; e-mail baglady@baglady.com) discusses bead knitting methods and shows the beaded bag knitting books, frames, and 0000 knitting needles that BagLady sells. These hard-to-find items make very good marketing sense on the world wide web.
Don't worry, if you're not on-line. You can also order these items for making the Victorian-style purse designs by fax: 1-303-670-2179; or call toll-free: 1-888-222-4523.
Copyright 1996 Vogue Knitting Magazine, Butterick, Inc.