Links to Other Beadie Critter Sites

Links to Sites with Beadie Critter Patterns

Evelyn's Beadie Page--a collection of patterns by Evelyn McDermand: Cartoon Characters, Pokemon, Beanie Babies, Holidays, and more!

Lily's icandream.com--Over 60 different fashion doll beadies, made with mini pony beads. These include patterns for several fairy-tale characters and a new couture line. Her crafts section includes patterns for a few cartoon characters, and some cute holiday patterns. Also a few suncatcher patterns.

Eileens Favorite Camp Crafts has original Jewish religious designs, and designs of Kenny, Pikachu and Furby, and more.

Jason's Beadie Page--a complete set of Pokemon patterns, animals, anime, cartoon characters, religious, holidays, steven series, Digimon, food, objects, and sports related beadies and more. All designed by Jason. This is an Angelfire site, but still works. A little annoying with the amount of ads.

FreeKidsCrafts.com - a subsidiary of MakingFriends.com, with some free beadie patterns. I found the amount of ads on this site really obnoxious, but if you can work around the pop-up ads, you can find the beadie patterns here: https://www.freekidscrafts.com/materials/bead-crafts/

Craft Project Ideas is a cute little site with lots of kids' craft ideas, including a few pony bead "pet" projects like a Santa face and a skull, and a few other projects involving pony beads.

Planetpals is a site designed to make kids environmentally aware while having fun! They have a set of Itty Bitty Beadie Babies made to resemble the characters that inhabit the website.

Sly the Crafty Fox's Den--patterns for beadie lookalikes of beanie babies: Speedy, Lizzy and Hissy. The whole site is very cute! Note: This was a Geocities site and can now only be accessed via Archive.org's WayBack Machine which preserves websites that have disappeared. Make sure to save any patterns you like, you never know when it may be gone for good!

How Stuff Works has several pony bead patterns here - kite, airplane, heart, butterfly, and cheerleader.

Pony Bead Otter Pattern on Deviant Art

Beady Buddies Bonanza and Danette's Designs Creative Minds Arts & Crafts--had a lot of patterns, but seems to have recently gone defunct.

YouTube Videos

Justin Bennett at TurboBeads has some really unique and fascinating pony bead projects using pony beads and fishing line. Some projects are traditional like the possum and toast, others are 3D, plus he has a lot of bracelet patterns, and more.

BeadKids has videos on basic beading, and some more advanced techniques, as well as patterns for Bluey, Grogu, BB8, Harry Potter, a red panda, a snail, dinosaurs, and more. Check out her drinking straw method with the 6x9 pony beads. Some of these videos are quite fast so you'll have to pause it to see the project and follow along.

Easter Peeps by My Magical Corner. Several other pattern tutorials available including gnomes for Christmas, Valentines, and Easter, and a wine bottle.

Simple Beading with Liv has lot of 3D patterns using smaller beads and wire.

Pencil, Watermelon and Lizard, Gameboy Color and Dragonfly by MarCrafts

Simple Rainbow Keychain by TenGemsDIY

Dragonfly by Krista's Sew Crafty

Dog by Ms. Baik

Dolphin by Pandahall

Frog, Fox from Fairfield Public Library

3D Octopus from Craft Warehouse

Turtle (blurry) from CraftProjectIdeas

Ice Cream Cone and Cupcake, Chick, Ducky, and Peeps, Smiley Face and Jack-o-Lantern, Shark (blurry), Colorful Ornament (blurry) from Michaels Stores

There are so many, many more videos out there! Try searching on YouTube for "pony bead ____" (thing you want to make) and see if there is a video for it!

Links to Other Popular Projects Involving Beads

Native American Headress--A popular request. This is on my site, but I don't include it in the pattern indices because it's not a pony bead project.

Commercial Sites

(these sites have something to sell to you)

Need a lot of beads? Bolek's Craft Supplys has them for a good price. They also have over 70 colors in both regular 6x9mm and mini 4x7mm sizes, many that you won't be able to find in stores!

Pony Bead Store is another place to find lots of colors of beads. They have 233 colors and mixes of regular-size pony beads. An amazing selection! Their selection of mini pony beads is much smaller and most of the colors seem to be sold out.

BeadKids.com has kits and beading supplies. The beading board is a really interesting idea that might help!

Books

There are 2 books by Drew Wilkens books that were hot sellers in the late 90s: Geckos and Other Bead Animals and Geckos 2: More Bead Animals. A lot of the patterns are familiar, but there are a few different ones. He has very nice step-by-step illustrated instructions for each pattern. These books are out of print, and used book dealers are selling them for high prices. There were also a number of booklets with pony bead critter patterns in them. Some were by Westrim, Suzanne McNeil, etc. They are out of print and largely unavailable.

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