Bead Boy Sidekicks Gallery

Without Bead Boy Sidekicks, this page wouldn’t exist. Since
July/August of 2000 (debut de Bead Boy), we have published 172 images of readers’ creative solutions for beading (not to mention additional images we could show only on our website). Having said that, I felt compelled to make Bead Boy Mel as homage to Mel Jonassen for all her creative, often over-the-top contributions to this department over the years. (Find more of her pink dreadlocks in our Beadwork IV: The Beaded Figure online gallery.) We turn the tables in the next issue, with a final challenge— Bead Bead Boy. Send photos of your creation to Bead Boy, Interweave Press, 201 E. Fourth St., Loveland, CO 80537-5655; send digital images to dustinw@interweave.com.

See more readers' work in the Bead Boy Sidekicks Gallery.