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Links to Other
Beadie Critter Sites

Many of the sites listed below offer additional beadie critter patterns. Other sites offer other kinds of crafts using beads. A few of the sites (listed at the bottom) have patterns or kits for sale.

Links to Sites with Several Beadie Critter Patterns
Danette's Designs Creative Minds Arts & Crafts--all kinds of crafts, and over 7,000 beadie patterns--cartoon characters and animals. This is a subscription site--you have to pay a fee to receive a password before you can access the patterns.
Eileens Favorite Camp Crafts has original Jewish religious designs, and designs of Kenny, Pikachu and Furby, and more.
Evelyn's Beadie Page--a collection of patterns by Evelyn McDermand: Cartoon Characters, Pokemon, Beanie Babies, Holidays, 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.
Kids Domain has just added a couple of original Beadie Critters designs--a Pokeball and a Game Boy Color.
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. Bonus--She's got bead backgrounds and graphics you can add to your own beadie pages. This site seems to be down at the moment.
Making Friends Lots of patterns--many for cartoon characters.
And, pony bead loom patterns for making a beadie display hanging, flag, dragon, beetle, happy face, sad face and mad face. Plus Bead Friendship Bracelets.
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, with more to come soon. The whole site is very cute!

Links to Sites with Just a Few Patterns
Beadie Ghost
Halloween Patterns--Ghost, Spider and Jack-o-Lantern--from Hands-on Crafts for Kids (scroll all the way down the page and look for the pattern names)
Billy Bear is a fun site for kids and he has a pony bead pattern: a Pilgrim.
Two Beadie Ladybugs

Links to Other Popular Projects Involving Beads
Indian 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)
Beadie Beauties. Another site where you can order 12 patterns. Her patterns are kind of different because they involve using a big wooden bead for the head. There is a free mermaid pattern there and the set of patterns to purchase ($5 + $2 shipping) includes a hula girl, an angel, witch, and more.
Pony Bead Critters and More! has a packet with 50 patterns for $5.95 + 1.95 shipping/handling.
Beaded Lizards for Sale--for $1.50 she will make a lizard for you, in the colors of your choice.
Need a lot of beads? Bolek's Craft Supplys has them for a good price. They also have over 70 colors, many that you won't be able to find in stores!

Books

Hands of the Hills has two books with some unusual animals in them: The Magic of Beaded Animals and Bugz&Critters. The 2nd book is currently sold as a kit with beads, but may soon be available as just a book. Contact Hands of the Hills via the e-mail address on their site to receive an order form.

I finally ordered my own copies of the 2 Drew Wilkens books: 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.

Hot Off the Press has 3 books for the various size beads: #2196, Bead a Better Buddy; #2197, E-Bead Buddies; and #2198, Itty Bitty Beadie Buddies. All  $6.50 each. You can order by mail with their on-line order form, but they are also often available at your local craft store.

McCall's Creates currently has these books:
Beach Beadies (#126)--Surfer and surf board, lighthouse, mermaid, seagull, sun, sailboat and more!
Zany Zoo Beadies (#022)--adorable animals, many made using chenille bumps. Peacock, camel, panda, and more!
Jolly Beadies (#054)--more Christmas Beadies, and some beautiful snowflakes made with pony beads, other beads and chenille stems.
Boo-tiful Beadies (#102)--Halloween beadies
Big Beastie Beadies (#163)--jungle animals
Jingle Beadies (#286)--very cute Christmas beadies
Spring Beadies (#253)--spring & Easter designs
Many Craft stores have a McCalls' Creates display stand. If you can't find these books at your local store, Erica's Craft & Sewing Center has the Spring one, and you can order from them online. (See link above)

Suzanne McNeill Design Originals has put out a whole series of new books, and all of them have very cute patterns in them. While some of the patterns are similar to those you can find elsewhere for free, I have found at least a few patterns in each book that were new to me. Most of the books are $3.99 but a couple of them are $6.99. You can usually find these books at your local craft store.

To see all their books and order them on-line, click here: Suzanne McNeill Design Originals

Grace Publications puts out several books:
Pony Bead Fun--Designer Angie Rogers has designed some cute critters for this book. Again, many of them are similar to ones you can get for free, but there are a couple of unique patterns. $6.99.
A "Way" with Pony Beads, by Jan Way.
Pony Bead Playtime--cute bendable critters, unusual method.
String It with Pony Beads--Holidays and Misc.
You can purchase all of these at www.makingfriends.com's bookstore.