Freshwater Angelfish (2D)

 

Pattern from this book.

Pirate keychain thingy

I'm not really sure what to do with this thing, it's just a little too big to be a keychain... Made after a part of this pattern.

Lizard keychain

I didn't choose the best background color for this keychain, so the lizard motif is barely visible. It's a little better with the light from behind, but without flash the picture became a bit blurry. Pattern from this book.

Lovable Beaded Creatures

"Lovable Beaded Creatures"

By Anja Freese, German original published in 2001

Available on Amazon

This is the 17th beading book I've bought, but the first one in English :) The book has patterns both for beaded animals and some jewelry, like brooches and woven bracelets, though that last section is by far the smallest part. One thing that puzzles me a little is that there is a pattern for a lizard brooch, but there is no picture of the finished item...

The pattern and the picure of the finished animal are shown together on the same page(s), so you don't have to look back and forth in the book. A genious thing about the patterns in this book, that I can't believe no one else has done, is to put a number next to each row that indicates the number of beads in that row. That means you don't have to count the beads, which is especially practical when the pattern is all one color.

All the animals are three-dimensional, and all the patterns are colored. Some of the patterns are:

Bear with honey pot

Owl

Weasel

Fox

Mole

Baby seal

Poison arrow frogs

Octopus

Killer whale

Angelfish

King penguin & chick

Swan

Hummingbird

Anteater

Kangaroo

Butterflies

Cobra

Guinea pig

Perlentiere Natürlich Schön

"Beautiful natural beaded animals"

By Torsten Becker, published in 2006

Available on Amazon

I believe this is Becker's first beading book, and I think that shows in some of the animals. I'm not saying that some patterns are poor, but the animals in his latest book (from 2008) are a bit more developed, and in general more exotic and unusual.

The patterns are collected in a removable booklet stapled in the middle of the book, and all the patterns are colored. Some of them are:

Stork
Frogs
Collie family
Spider & web
Turtle family
Killer whale
Dinosaurs (Stegosaurus & Tyrannosaurus)
Parrots
Elephant
Fish
Moose
Cobra

Tiny turtle

Free pattern found here.

Black Widow spider (2D)

The original is made using a different beading technique than I normally use, so I made a few changes to make it look right. Free pattern found here.

Rainbow lorikeet

Modified the colors a bit and changed the feet to make it more like a parrot, with two toes pointing forward and two pointing back. Pattern from this book.

Harvestman

Not even a true spider, but still gives me the creeps... Just look at those legs! Pattern from this book.

Green Huntsman Spider

Pattern from this book.