Live Wire Jewelry by Katie Hacker

Live Wire Jewelry by Katie Hacker

Colorful wire jewelry with a twist

Warm, vibrant copper or cool, soothing blue--there's no doubt that color inspires us to create. Katie Hacker'sLive Wire Jewelry colors your world with 30 dynamic designs, all featuring vibrant hues of colored wire. Coil, wrap, loop, weave and twist your way to dazzling necklaces, elegant earrings and playful bracelets. Dressed up or dressed down, the designs in Live Wire Jewelry are sure to make you sparkle and shine.

Inside you'll find:

• 30 brilliant, colorful jewelry designs
• An in-depth course in wire-working, from types and gauges of wire to instructions on how to make jump rings, links, hooks, bundled wire beads and more
• Variations that demonstrate how to translate ideas from the projects into your own unique creations

Add a spark of creativity and color to your wardrobe with the high-voltage designs in Live Wire Jewelry

Beads, Baubles, & Diamonds is a public television show hosted by Katie Hacker. She wrote 15 books on jewelry and 5 books about general crafts for Hot Off the Press between 1999 and 2005, selling over a million copies in total. She is also the writer of Bead & Wire Jewelry Exposed (NL, 2009) and the author of Hip to Bead (Interweave, 2006), Easy & Fashionable Bead Accents (KP, 2005), and Hip to Bead (Interweave, 2006). She has two kits with manuals through Walter Foster--Fashion Your Own Beaded Jewelry, 2006--and she just debuted her own product line with Beadalon--Katiedids Creative Components--this year. Katie is a columnist for Beadwork magazine and delivers workshops at national venues such as the Bead & Button Show.

She contributes to Create Your Style and Beadalon as a guest blogger. Hacker is a resident of Keystone, Indiana.